I'm not sure it's tsundere in the usual sense--but it's not precisely a sadist and a masochist either. We use the labels we know . . . this has a "historical" tag. I feel like there's a class difference between them, with the dark haired girl being higher status. So she's all like "I can't admit I have a thing for a social inferior" sort of deal.
In terms of the relationship, clearly the other girl is the aggressor and the dark haired girl is, somewhat tsundere-style, totally embarrassed by the whole thing. But although the hitting initially would have come out of that, like how dare you lay your hands on me even if I want it, you plebe, it does seem as if she gets off on it. On the third hand, the light haired girl isn't obviously a masochist; she just takes it as a fairly minor price to pay for getting her hands on this young miss she's mad horny for. As Goggled Anon points out, she's really not "submitting" in any way.
And, being historical, neither of them sees hitting as being as important as we do.
I'm not sure how much I buy the whole dynamic, but I think that's the idea it's trying for. And while I'm not a huge fan of the story, I do think it's positive that it's doing a relationship dynamic that doesn't actually fit into our rather stale labels.
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