>>3088732>It's about how the situation develops and the scene is portrayed. Hiro collapses and 002 says nothing. Not an "are you ok?" or even a "get up you wuss!"02 been through this before, she knows what happens when the link is broken.
She was already preparing for the worst by trying to mentally distance from him it just meant he didn't amount to much. As well as not being all over him before the battle, leaving him to talk with Ichigo.
His condition was already deteriorating, and then he went completely silent, it was obvious what happened, and not the time to make a quip about it.
>And while she's struggling to fight the Klax, she once again behaves like she did not even register Hiro's apparent deathShe thought she killed the only person that actually cared for her and she went berserk. If you killled someone you cared about inadvertently, you aren't going to start cracking lines like "I'll make you pay".
>And her "die you monster" lines are ambiguous and can be read in any number of ways.She refereed to herself as possibly being a monster several times. Before entering the battle and Hiro didn't try to dispute that like he did in episode 4. It'd make sense that after thinking she killed him and earlier when he didn't say she wasn't, she'd call herself one.