The rugby players throw Sunohara down, trample him, and drop-kick him over his loud music. Misae arrives demanding quiet, and they flee. When Sunohara clings to her ankle and complains that she should have saved him sooner, she throws him off and assigns him an equal share of the blame.
Her frustration has a real basis. The players describe repeated loud music, and Misae says she is the one who receives the neighbors' complaints. Sunohara cannot make that disturbance disappear simply because the response to it is worse. But responsibility for starting an argument and responsibility for its violence are different questions. Misae's intervention stops the attack without making that distinction in her rebuke. Treating both sides as equally at fault gives the dorm mother a quick way to close the incident, at the cost of flattening what the players actually did. Her rescue deserves credit; its accompanying judgment needs more discrimination than her demand for quiet.
The rugby players throw Sunohara down, trample him, and drop-kick him over his loud music. Misae arrives demanding quiet, and they flee. When Sunohara clings to her ankle and complains that she should have saved him sooner, she throws him off and assigns him an equal share of the blame. Her frustration has a real basis. The players describe repeated loud music, and Misae says she is the one who receives the neighbors' complaints. Sunohara cannot make that disturbance disappear simply because the response to it is worse. But responsibility for starting an argument and responsibility for its violence are different questions. Misae's intervention stops the attack without making that distinction in her rebuke. Treating both sides as equally at fault gives the dorm mother a quick way to close the incident, at the cost of flattening what the players actually did. Her rescue deserves credit; its accompanying judgment needs more discrimination than her demand for quiet.