Akiko Masamune. And she did manage to impress Akiko enough that they became friends, instead of employer/employee.





I didn't say she was terribly successful, though maybe she sees something in those plumbing manuals.





As Chiaki would say, he has new family now.





And yet Liu Xi goes on defending him. She hopes he'll learn someday, but she's also way too protective to let him go it alone if she can help it.





Lara will follow rules out of good manners and to make things go more smoothly. Right up until they start costing her. Then she'll break every one of them.

Which is why she's killed before in her line of work. She knows it's wrong because she believes it's an abomination to kill someone. But if that someone starts to cost her dearly, she'll turn her power up to 11 and not care about the consequences. And yes, that does occasionally create a lot of collateral damage, but amazingly, she's never killed an innocent bystander that way.





If she sees them being cruel to others, she'll probably ignore everything they say from that point on because she'll know their purpose is just to be cruel.





Someone is going to get punched really hard. Someone besides Visionary.





Wouldn't that make it into a right pointing "V" shape?