You were right but then again, they have their own traumas, pasts, and habits that keeps them from reaching our expectations to reach that understanding yet. The author MIGHT want to prolong this manga longer; give them a benefit of a doubt, they're still learning and adjusting, 'cause wounds that cuts deeper from your flesh is much more harder to forget even our own body and mind responds to that without even realizing. It's just hard. Chise once said that she wants to be useful and i think that how she responds to it by helping and compromising even her life 'cause shes still bounded by her self loathing. (I forgot all the scenes and even the names 'cause it's been so long since i read this—but thats what and how i understand them)
I’ve been watching the anime and to be honest with you I forgot how frustrated I get with Chise’s character. She is often putting herself in situations that put her life at risk and I think the part that drives me crazy is that she’s only thinking of herself and not Elias like he is learning about human emotions, like a lot of people may hate on him, but in reality, he’s not a human completely different existence on his own. I feel so bad for him every time, she puts herself in danger, and yet she doesn’t expect a reaction out of him. Hahaha, like she is selfish and stubborn every time she saves someone or something, and Elias is the same as her in his pursuit to keep her safe and she just doesn’t get it.