Talk:Hairu Ihei/@comment-27574412-20160110160042/@comment-10733658-20160110161628

I'm actually....kind of surprised that's the impression you got from that chapter. I apologize if it sounds rude, but it kind of seems like you missed the point by a mile. O.o;

We basically get a front-row seat to Koori having a complete breakdown. He's basically functioning on auto-pilot, and mentions that he knows he's continuing to give orders but he.....can't even understand what he's saying. Instead, his brain kind of starts cycling through nonsense -- recalling a happy moment, reciting the stops on Tokyo's most important train line, and thinking something as benign as how the bread they ate together was good.

You don't always break down wailing and crying when something awful happens. Sometimes you just kind of......go numb and seem to be functioning, but you really aren't all there. It's a very typically reaction to extreme stress or grief, especially in situations where you cannot afford to completely lose it yet.

He's absolutely not alright there, emotionally. And we found out that Matsuri took advantage of his grief to pin all the blame for the operation's failures on Koori.