[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Honesty without tact is honesty. Nothing cruel about it. If she's going to be working as a detective investigating Fuuto's seedy underbelly she's going to need a thicker skin than that.

Considering that at this point Tokime had shown no level of professionalism or care whatsoever I don't see why she deserved sugarcoating or tact. She was quite literally getting a free ride, probational release despite being an opportunistic thief and she got to live at Shotaro's place for free. She had a very simple task and that was to not abandon the client and she did. (again, nobody knows that she was in a weird trance) From Philip's perspective his criticism was absolutely valid.

Criticizing Philip doesn't mean ignoring Tokime's rudeness back. I'm not exclusively refering to Tokime's retort here, but other characters too, like Akiko is stunned at Tokime's response, Terui ordered both to stop (though this won't properly defuse them), and Shotaro views them as both arguing (neither are being in the right). About Philip's apologize, it's not only about this part but also about others like him unintentionally treating her like lab specimen before.

Aside from that, just in general, why is offending someone while saying the truth makes it considered "more" honest than someone just saying the truth? It's not sugarcoating when someone speaks the truth without attacking. People come up with justifications for their actions so they can get away with it which includes using 'honesty' as an excuse for rudeness. Though going back to the series, proper criticism can be chastising by directly telling her to stay focused on the order and not get herself distracted, or drilling how important/serious the client's life is, which'd not involve insults if only focusing on telling that (then again, he was consumed by jealousy).