>>69976484Since this particular event has been getting used and abused by bad actors, I will make this statement once and only once, in an attempt to clear misconceptions.
Pomu had been preparing for this trip for a while. It was a topic even back in the hanamori days.
Elira asked her to come with.
Pomu is an accommodating and confrontation-averse person, and Elira was her coworker and long-time friend.
They were not particularly close when the trip happened, and they certainly were not particularly close following the trip.
The best way to describe Pomu's and Elira's relationship would be that of a strained friendship that's cooled off to the status of an acquaintance. They were never actual friends that would confide to each other or hang out together one-on-one, but they were both in the same friend-group, social circle, and industry.
They are still friends, in the same way you would be friends with a coworker you only see at work, and would wave to and make 5-minute small-talk when you run into each other on the street.
This is how adults navigate the world.
