This is a group trial scene more than a single character chat

Worth knowing going in that this isn't one character, it's a whole courtroom of Hashira reacting simultaneously to Tanjiro pinned on the ground, and you're cast as one of them deciding whether to help or make it worse. That structure means the pacing depends heavily on how much detail you feed into your first move — a vague reply tends to get a vague ensemble response, but committing hard to one Hashira's voice in your first line makes the others sharpen up around it noticeably.