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I don't think she blames Sorawo on an intellectual level; if she could sit down and think about it calmly, she'd probably admit that it wasn't really anyone's fault.
This is what I was replying to. Also, the narrator claims that Kozakura is being irrational, but that narrator is Sorawo herself, and she doesn't understand Kozakura in the first place.
You can't really say she should have considered that; if she was able to, she wouldn't have gone off in the first place.
I'm not saying that Kozakura is right, but not everyone uses 'what could have happened' as ethics to decide who is to blame. As I already said, if you want to avoid history repeating itself, something needs to be changed. In this situation the only two 'bad' behaviors are Toriko's decision of going there alone, and her precedent discussion with Sorawo. Everything else is a reasonable action compared to those (or is outside their control).
This can be seen in the following:
- Toriko: I think I was wrong [ I didn't expect you to follow me, and ] I didn't mean to get you involved {intention-based ethics}
- Kozakura gulps {she is conscious that she'll appear badly if she says it, as Toriko tried to do the right thing}
- Kozakura: You say that like it was our fault for chasing after you, you know. {look at the what Toriko says trying to see what should be changed, Toriko only mentions them following her being unexpected, as if that was the action that should have been different. She won't change her behavior in this way. Instead Kozakura thinks the problem is her going in alone, or her discussion with Sorawo. She wants Toriko to acknowledge the actual problem, and improve.}
- Toriko: No, that's not it [and seems to panic]
- Sorawo: Couldn't you put a little more faith in me? [and similar following sadistic bubbles]
- Kozakura: You are getting carried away. {Sorawo is totally missing Kozakura's point, and just playing with Toriko}
As far as her being worried about them, [...]
I phrased it wrong. I agree and it's clearly visible, but it's not my main point and we agree on it, so let's forget about it.
And you can see Kozakura getting mad as a way to deal with fear already in the chapters before she gets plantified.
She was getting mad to cover up her fear, not to deal with it. It's different from what happened in the last chapters, where she was actively attacking the other two.
and has already been acting somewhat irrationally (she walked away from the building in a daze, without her gun. Which really makes her somewhat at fault as well, if you want to focus on that)
That's glitch that hypnotized her like for Toriko, and Sorawo already broke that 'spell'. Otherwise she wouldn't have been a plant.
the double shows up, and she (naturally) wants to make sure she doesn't lose track of it.
Why? ch22, page 14, she is next to Kozakura and realizes where the double is going. Doesn't need to keep track of it. If you swap Kozakura with Toriko, Sorawo wouldn't have followed the double immediately to find Kozakura asap, but tried to de-plantify Toriko. If you put two Toriko's I wouldn't be so sure, but I doubt she would have transformed Toriko in a plant and left her alone, only because Toriko was scared.
