>>282384219
>Later he runs her over with a truck
Let's be real. The journo was gonna aim for all the Tachibanas and Natsuo as well.
And iirc, Hina was on her emotional lowest, thinking in dying and take her feelings for Natsuo with her at that moment bc she let Natsuo slip away to Rui, she was having a dead end job, no romantic prospect, and was very aware the journo wasn't done with them. So, at the moment she saw the danger coming, she chose to kill 2 stones with a bird: be an hero'd by the journo and dying a hero by pushing Rui away.
It makes me wonder if Kawakubo was pushing for a Hina death+Rui endgame, but after fighting with Sasuga (who was adamant on making Natsuo end with Hina), they came with this trainwreck of an end.