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> ライトは事もなく照子の名前を入手することに成功しました。 照子も結構鋭いところを見せてくれますが、 **もう彼女に抵抗の余地はないのでしょうか？**
> せっかくの「きれいなお姉さん」なので、なんとか頑張って欲しいものです。

Context: On episode 6 of Death Note, Light is trying get information from
former FBI agent 南空ナオミ about something she discovered related to the Kira
case. He asks for her name giving his first, and she introduces herself as
間木照子.

Can this sentence mean: "Does it look like there's no resistance FROM/BY the
woman?" instead of "Does it look like there's no resistance TO the woman?"

I thought this sentence meant that the author of the blog didn't like the
character of 照子 before and know he does. I guess that was the case because
after that line there's this sentence: "せっかくの「きれいなお姉さん」なので、なんとか頑張って欲しいものです。"
which is clearly the author giving his opinion.

But after thinking for a bit, if 照子 was the one doing the action (resisting or
not resisting to give his name to Light) it would make more sense.

Before that we have: "ライトは事もなく照子の名前を入手することに成功しました。" which states that Light
got her name without any problem (resistance from her part). So it would make
perfect sense if, after that, the author questions why would she give her name
to someone he just met without any hesitation (Like, maybe she could've just
said "I can't give you my name because it's not safe"). The answer is of
course , the name 照子 is a fake one, but the author doesn't mention that as it
happens in the next episode.

Is my interpretation correct? I started to think of this after reading this:
<https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/11021>

I know I asked something similar before ([Directionality of
にも](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/64692/directionality-
of-%E3%81%AB%E3%82%82)) but there seems to not be an online version of that
dictionary anymore (明鏡) and I tried to find a definition of that usage of に in
other Japanese dictionaries but to no avail. I just want to be 100% sure of
this usage of the に particle.
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meaning particle-に
Meaning of に in もう彼女に抵抗の余地はないのでしょうか？
Simply, this に is a location/place marker used with existence verbs like
ある/いる/ない/etc, although this type of に is often better translated to English
using "have".

  * [Cases where "に" cannot mean "at"](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/42803/5010)
  * [What is the difference between ni and ni wa, when talking about a person?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/43887/5010)
  * [Parsing 彼には映画監督になるという夢があります](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/42513/5010)

Therefore 彼女には抵抗の余地がない literally means "In/Around her, room for resistance
does not exist", or more naturally, "There is no chance of resisting Light for
her" or "She can no longer resist Light".
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