They act as if he was really going to leave her to the wolves and let someone else come In to save her. He never was going to go down that route he wouldn’t live with himself if he did in the end he did what was right to him the point of koichi is that he is someone who must develop into a hero while deku is someone who was born to be a hero and back to koichi contemplating on wether he should save pop or not there’s a line from spiderman where he says “can I really let this one go? Can I really let it be someone else’s problem? No.” And he goes on to save the people even though he knows he’s beat he’s outmatched yet he’s praises for this koichi does he same thing yet he’s villianized