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Emiri is genuinely an amazing friend and to have someone willing to get that upset on your behalf and at the thought of losing you is NOT something to throw away so easily.

I really loved this imagery of Emiri being taken to a cozy cottage setting when interacting with Makio, who gives her the freedom to choose as she likes rather than assuming one thing or another.

It's calm, remote, comforting...

"Nothing is completely irrelevant to you."

A university disregarding female applicants that will affect you as a woman even if you're not applying to that university or even any college, just the fact that your sex is being discriminated in the society you live in, because immediately after that scene two boys don't even bother to apologize after bumping into Asa. Trivial things you say out of a whim might hurt someone; Asa indulging in light gossip about boyfriends to Emiri without really listening to what she says, words that she'll forget but brings anxiety to her friend.

Asa thinking that things don't apply to her if she's not interested mirrors how her father lived as a void thinking his opinions and his words doesn't affect his child at all. Her reaction to the word "void" is far stronger than other else she heard from Makio. Her fear of "standing out" encourages her to essentially become her father, a wallflower, a follower, a void, a child who can't make her own decisions despite her personality being the complete opposite— eating away her feelings when she's full of it. Before she knew it, she turned into her mother.

That first step she took back when she bolted, as if to run away, was no different than the one she took now: a step back toward home. No matter where she was, her footprints were always headed there. Home.