Kanti is used to having to protect people, or at least put herself in a place where she needs to prepare to get hurt. It hasn't happened for a long time, because high school children are stupid, but not stupid enough to bash themselves into a wall until they're brain-damaged. She's not used to having to do it with adults though, but that doesn't keep her from continuing to pull the Dian's back.

"I think," she says to the pipe-carrying man from a little behind them, "that you should put that down before you get hurt."