Nanaki is a psycho.

Oh, she certainly tracks to the "bold, disinhibited and egotistical traits" half of the traditional conception of psychopathy closely enough. The rest not so much; and while the relevant personality disorders commonly include frequent, easy and brazen lying in pursuit of self-interest insofar we've been shown Fujishiro never lies.
Ever.
If anything it's the opposite. It seems to be almost a matter of principle for her to speak her mind and act on her feelings without reservation, taking the consequences as they come.

Also whatever mixed feelings (incl. getting all hot and bothered) she might have about how pretty Kurokawa turned out with some effort those certainly didn't make her call off the whole "let's make this Cinderella shine" plan - if anything she was clearly disappointed when the latter's swimwear basically relapsed into her old aggressively dowdy aspect.

Curiously enough, incidentally, Nanaki's occasional fretting over the prospect of Kanade accidentally "deposing" her is the only instance so far we see of her having inklings of self-doubt. Normally she never stops to second-guess herself (something Kanade conversely does to very unhealthy degrees) and just goes "full speed ahead and Devil take the torpedoes" - first times indeed...

Funny thing is, it kind of worked for those guys, hehe. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

The theory of a "neg" is, iirc, that you should hint or suggest to the girl that you have a negative idea of her ⎯ that she's uggs, or dumb, or has a bad personality, or something. Then the girl will desperately try to show you that she's not like that! Then you sit down and relax as she makes every effort to prove herself to you...... and, after a while, you tell her "Ok, you win, you've persuaded me, let's go on a date!" and she's like "Yay! I won!" and doesn't even realize that you have manipulated her.

So you see, you could say that Nanaki totally fell for the neg, as she was furiously trying to make Kanade look cute just to "show those assholes" that they were wrong! If she succeeded, one assumes that the guys would say something like "Yeah, ok, your efforts have paid off, we're convinced, you two can hang out with us!" to which Nanaki would go "YES! I did it! Wait, what???"

(Hmm... come to think of it, it still can happen in ch8...)

I'm aware of the underlying theory thanks. It's basically trying to prey on low self-esteem and a need for external validation.
Yeah, that's gonna work reeeeeeal well on "pathologically cocksure" Nanaki who basically doesn't give a shit about most peoples' opinions except inasmuch they indicate the work she's putting into satisfying her vanity is working as intented or straight up piss her off...

Necessary reminder that she bears grudges forever which is why she's no longer in speaking terms with her old gyaru group... and those two dipshits committed essentially exactly the same mortal sin that made her blow up at Miki in the first place.
She's pretty ferociously protective of Kanade in a way, even if the latter's tendency to "waste her own potential" irks her.

One assumes that if they actually did run into those two rocket scientists again, and they were suitably impressed by Kurokawa's makeover, Fujishiro would basically sneer "Ha." and swagger off looking extremely pleased with herself.

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Nemo and her weird competitive streak

Sounds like bullshit straight out of that cancerous "Pick-Up Artist" scene tbh.

I like how Azusa doesn't bat an eye at being randomly turned down. Going by that chipper acknowledgement she can guess juuust fine what would make Sakurako hastily about-face like that... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The abusive what now. Nanaki's just colossally self-assured and a forceful personality, so she kind of keeps walking all over Kanade who's so far displayed all the spine of an earthworm.

The Magic H8 Ball tells me this somewhat one-sided dynamic is subject to change down the road once the latter starts gaining some self-confidence and shedding the worst of her insecurities.

They went straight to hand holding. Today's youth is lost.

...can't accuse Nanaki for wasting time tho.

And those boys were real idiots.

Unlike Fujishiro they actually are as shallow and superficial as they first seem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Kawawas are... pretty impressive. In all kinds of ways. (lol)

This author draws some excellent faces lol

Yoh... Yoh... where have I seen that name before...?
Oh.
Slightly daft tank engineering proposals, that's where. end of non sequitur

People have gotten married IRL through meeting in MMOs so, yeah.

so what you're saying is, if i want to become a couple with the girl i like, both of us need to bang our third wheel friend?

Yes. Alarming degrees of debatable consent may or may not be required.

[reaching intensifies]

(Foot tapping too)

What kind of novel perversion is this. D:

[collateral damage intensifies]

It occurs to me that Yuki's closet ought to be rather transparent to the guys in her clan given that A) unless she's using some kind of voice filter prog they know she's a girl B) she keeps asking them for tips explicitly for courting girls...

Oh, weasel youkai is novel. Can't recall running across that in a mango before.

Also, delinquent talk failed Tamamo airhead shield 2 stronk

Love knows no rules or common sense.

Alas, neither do salty forumers.
Which is the main problem.

I'm not sure wtf I just read but it was crazy awesome.

lmao Nano pls getcher mind outta gutter

I'm guessing that for whatever arcane reason (that probably involves some kind of deal between the appearing cafe and wherever this was published in) the story got rejiggered halfway in. There seems to be a degree of somewhat hasty reorienting going on in the narrative.

"Can I fondle your body?"

subtle af

The tabloids must love these girls.

I feel like I'm the only person that doesn't have problems with Windows Updates at times. They always happen outside of my active hours, and in the event that one doesn't, I can tell it to wait until I'm ready. Plus you can schedule them.

Ditto. I pretty much just check for updates before turning in for the night when I can be arsed to remember to (usually once or twice a week); do people not fiddle with the settings at all or something?

On an entirely different note, not a bad improvisation there Yohane. But you gotta keep it up to the end...

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Fujishiro's rapidly approaching the Stupid Sexy Kurokawa zone...