Maeko's rage was not even close to calmed and she was still no closer to getting the full story. Something to do with Shirai, something that Kou and Kozue disagreed about. She was inclined to believe Kozue, who had never called her a prostitute or whatever it was that 'house of ill repute' implied.
But the fact that Kozue wasn't hiding behind her, was fighting her own bettles rather than allowing them to be fought, almost came close to leting her understand something. She wasn't quite sure what she understood but her position changed, backing away from Kou and going from trying to fight Kozue's battles to trying to support her fighting.
"If you didn't want it to be our business you wouldn't have challenged her with all of us here." She said, sounding calm in a very clearly forced way. "You could just as easily have called her away and had this conversation in private. You're the one who made it everyone's business."