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Thanks for mellowrg who shared this hilarous image on the Yuricon mailing list.
Everything that Nao has done so far (setting her thugs on the seller of Arika’s uniform, rescuing the girls from the tentacle monster) has had a double edge to it i.e. while she’s being helpful, she expects repayment in the form of a future favour - told Nina and Arika that "You owe me one, again." in Ep 6. And that in both instances, it was in her interest to act anyway - defending the Juliet Gang’s turf and authority in the uniform case and having an opportunity to gloat at Shiho as well as to visibily discharge her Oneesama duties in the tentacle monster case.
Even so while she’s got a cool and hard exterior, complemented with that oh-so sharp, stinging and piercing tongue, I suspect that she’s got her heart in the right place just like in Mai HiME where her main redeeming point was her love for her mother. I wonder if her propensity for not being understood by others and not really wanting to be understood anyway will lead to another tragic repetition of the situation in Mai HiME when she was framed by Yukariko and her partner.
