I like how she can fail even at critical moments, like when assasinating the hobgoblin or when throwing a dagge at the goblin's neck. It shows that she has room to grow and that this figth isn't the do-all end-all of the figths she'll have to overcome.
My guess is that in the original novel Hokage had sex with her, and she wasn't knocked out by the other girl, but instead, Hokage had so much sex experience by this point in the story that he knocked or out (up?) through sex alone. And that is why the girls were annoyed, because he actively...
The original novel was sex everywere, by this point I think he had already f*cked every girl in the group at least once, but at the same time the novel was lower quality in the story and characters. I prefer the manga.
Yup, but at least we have to delude ourselves with the posibility that things may go badly:
Will Hokage's group be able to poach enough people before the other group find their location?!
I think this could kinda work if they poach very small groups, like 1 or 2 people, convince them hard...