Well, if you're bringing up Yakuza connections, keep in mind that one of the possible 'escalations' might be drawing soldiers from a group that Kaname and Sousuke have close ties to.
See, in Fumoffu, we find out that one of Kaname's classmates, the Mysterious Student Council President's assistant girl, I think her name's Ren, is in fact the daughter of a local yakuza Oyabun. Now, his gang's been having some problems - they're not particularly aggressive, and implied as the sort who take the yakuza's 'noble roots' seriously. 'Protection' means actual protection, and so on.
So Sousuke, whose boomsticks runneth over, hooks them up with an innovation he'd discovered earlier - the mini-armslave, the pint-sized fuzzy avatar of destruction, the deadliest bit of hardware ever to fit through a doorway - Bonta-kun!
The end of the episode shows dozens of Bontas taking down the interloper's headquarters with rubber bullets, SWAT-style.
So it occurs to me that a possible escalation that doesn't involve sending a hundred guys after one target, would be tapping the firepower key, instead. And might lead to the amusing mental image of a Bonta flailing as it gets hoisted several stories off the ground by Tessa's backup, or slinking away in shame after being chewed out by a visiting Kaname. (Sousuke did train them all, but he did it from the inside of his Bonta, with Kaname interpreting via radio-headset.)
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
See, in Fumoffu, we find out that one of Kaname's classmates, the Mysterious Student Council President's assistant girl, I think her name's Ren, is in fact the daughter of a local yakuza Oyabun. Now, his gang's been having some problems - they're not particularly aggressive, and implied as the sort who take the yakuza's 'noble roots' seriously. 'Protection' means actual protection, and so on.
So Sousuke, whose boomsticks runneth over, hooks them up with an innovation he'd discovered earlier - the mini-armslave, the pint-sized fuzzy avatar of destruction, the deadliest bit of hardware ever to fit through a doorway - Bonta-kun!
The end of the episode shows dozens of Bontas taking down the interloper's headquarters with rubber bullets, SWAT-style.
So it occurs to me that a possible escalation that doesn't involve sending a hundred guys after one target, would be tapping the firepower key, instead. And might lead to the amusing mental image of a Bonta flailing as it gets hoisted several stories off the ground by Tessa's backup, or slinking away in shame after being chewed out by a visiting Kaname. (Sousuke did train them all, but he did it from the inside of his Bonta, with Kaname interpreting via radio-headset.)
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."