Nothing like a bunch of extremely aggressive pickup artists(who will nonetheless back down immediately when confronted) with impeccable timing to arrive just before the other party to push the story forward
I love how in this series(and in the original) the protagonists aren't all helpless idiots who are always played like a fiddle and/or overpowered by the villains. Most of the time, anyway.
Waiting for someone to say something like "Yikes, her motivation is wrong, it should come from yourself and not from trying to satisfy other people"
Too much Reddit