HIKARI:“because I think you did your best, Asuka.”
UrsusArctos: While the concept of ganbatte - "do you best" is deeply ingrained in Japanese culture and saying that one did their best is indeed one of the most common forms of consolation in Japanese, it's also something that's cliche and comes off as insincere quite easily. Hikari delivers this in a manner that is distant and not particularly sincere because she doesn't really understand what Asuka is going through. Furthermore, Hikari drives in the idea that Asuka failed even after doing her best which is anathema to her. It's no surprise that Asuka leaves Hikari to commit far darker acts, as we see at the start of Episode 24.
