Weird is less important than whether it's been integrated already. At some point if Liu Xi is unable to integrate material, from that point on she's dying, much like someone with cancer.





That must be why he doesn't drop hints around Yuki. There's no fun in it if she catches on immediately.





Unlike Yuki, if Chiaki caught a hint of something from the Hooded Hood, she would combine it with her senses to quietly figure out what he's doing. But then she'd prepare, and keep it to herself. Meaning the Hooded Hood wouldn't really get the satisfaction of knowing that his message was received.








Faite doesn't have a Portal of Pretentiousness, so she's still behind the curve on that. Her senses are more like a really strong form of deja vu - she can feel when something is not supposed to be that way. If she pushes her senses out, she can feel everything that's going on around her, but tends to prioritize on larger events, because it's too difficult to keep track of everyone who's on the toilet and crossing the street at the moment.

Chiaki probably has the most accurate sense of the three of them. Faite feels lucky that she knows the Samurai, because it does help her sometimes.





That could be dangerous if it comes back to haunt him.





I actually enjoy exploring the personal struggle a character with extreme powers has to deal with. They're natural outcasts, and have to go to a lot of effort to get people to trust them.

They have people constantly watching for when they screw up, because those people revel in the thought that just because they're powerful doesn't mean they're infallible.

And so on...





There always is one.