"If I tell the truth, Haitani-san will be criticized and hurt". Yeah? Good, she fucking should be. I will never understand the mindset that seems to be so common in manga where a character is willing to take all the heat for something they didn't do, all while protecting the actual perpetrator. That doesn't make you the "better person", it makes you a fucking idiot, and makes it more likely that they'll do the same shit to somebody else in the future.