This is actually witnessing how Kouichi is taking the wrong path and failing spectacularly.
We can comment this confidently because we are in the God's prospective.
Every events happened are just a fact but the most important thing is how we deal with it, both physically and mentally.
The Yanagi way is inhumane but that is his way to survive / success. Simply "copy and paste" someone's path won't lead you success.
Life is not that easy and there is always way more going on besides the bright side of that person's path.
To me, Kouichi seems extremely naive and craving for "success" almost pointless to me now. His mindset of success is always caring on how people viewing him or all those meaningless external tokens. He doesn't know how to cherish himself. Being in Yanagi team is more like a double-edged sword, if he could manage to carry on, in fact he could be one of the most successful person ever. However, his core mentality is too fragile that working with Yanagi is simply breaking him.
