Seeing the responses to ren’s very calm and concise refusal towards boman’s stupidity proves to me that a lot of readers either haven’t been paying attention or have the memory of goldfish, and even that doesn’t excuse how stupid it is to blame ren for not immediately forgiving and enabling these dumbass kid’s behavior.
Ren told boman off for expecting her to help with his stupid (however well meaning) stall plan and took the opportunity to air out grievances that were well overdue based on how he and his group have been acting, he acted like a shit at the orphanage, continued acting like one after the other kids took initiative to leave the orphanage and effectively save him from homelessness, disrespected ren by ignoring her classes after Markel practically begged her to let him and the others join, and had the gall to enlist her in his stupid ass stall plan with no compensation while standing in the newly rebuilt house that she spent an hour constructing for everyone’s sake, this goes triple for that clown kain and both of them are the only ones who refuse to change in the face of homelessness and death, they are not her friends and don’t deserve to be coddled while everyone else is doing their part to keep the group alive and mostly happy.
Despite all of this ren still treats ryu with respect and approaches him honestly even though he was the second loudest jackass right behind kain, why? Because he actually paid attention in her classes, attempted to be respectful when asking her to cook and made the conscious decision not to get involved with boman’s bullshit, to be honest this and a lot of the restraint we’ve seen ren exercise so far is something that is only possible because ren got her 30 year old man memories back. If ren remained her “normal” 10(?) year old self and was put in this situation I think it’s very safe to say she would’ve flipped shit at these morons continuing to treat her like a prop even after a full year of thinking she was dead, and likely would’ve dropped the bombshell that she was being regularly assaulted by the orphanage headmaster or whatever just to hammer home how awful they were before promptly declaring she never wants to see them again, which very well would’ve led to kain, boman and ryu being kicked out for their sheer awfulness, hell Markel might’ve gotten dragged into the gutter with them seeing as he does still try his best for them despite their behavior.
the hell do you want from her? More by the numbers “protagonist apologizing to assholes for not being enough of a doormat” plot development? Or the other characters giving in and begging ren to help with such stupidity thus forcing the reader to put up with even MORE boman and kain?