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** Mutsumi fits the bill as well. She goes and completely trusts two unsavory girls she ''just met'', then afterwards tells Keitaro that "he can't just go around believing what everyone else just says." Likewise, she tells Keitaro he needs to stop dwelling on the past whenever he brings up all the times he was beaten and accused of assault and at the same time says he needs to "remember the good times" he had with Naru as incentive to reunite.
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** Mutsumi fits the bill as well. She goes and completely trusts two unsavory girls she ''just met'', then afterwards tells Keitaro that "he can't just go around believing what everyone else just says." Likewise, she tells Keitaro he needs to stop dwelling on the past whenever he brings up all the times he was beaten and accused of assault and at the same time says he needs to "remember remember his promise that has happen much further in the good times" he had with Naru as incentive to reunite.past and was a insignificant event.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Flashbacks show Naru's tried to employ this to justify her past beatings of Keitaro. In one instance, Shinobu told Naru that Keitaro was helping her after she tripped to which Naru responded with anger that Keitaro "made Shinobu lie." After sending Keitaro through the roof, she ignored Shinobu's pleas by stating Keitaro's still "the same old pervert" and was trying to fool her.
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* HonorThyAbuser: Deconstructed. Granny Hina and Mutsumi both want Keitaro to overlook Naru's actions because they feel it's more important to uphold the past promises he made. This mindset only makes everyone turn against the two, especially Keitaro, as Naru shows no signs of changing her behavior or wanting to change. As a result, [[spoiler:both are left with nothing when Naru's plotting with Chisato and Kagura gets exposed.]]
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** Mutsumi fits the bill as well. She goes and completely trusts two unsavory girls she ''just met'', then afterwards tells Keitaro that "he can't just go around believing what everyone else just says."
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** Mutsumi fits the bill as well. She goes and completely trusts two unsavory girls she ''just met'', then afterwards tells Keitaro that "he can't just go around believing what everyone else just says."" Likewise, she tells Keitaro he needs to stop dwelling on the past whenever he brings up all the times he was beaten and accused of assault and at the same time says he needs to "remember the good times" he had with Naru as incentive to reunite.
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* FairWeatherEx: [[spoiler:At the end of the story, Naru tries to get back with Keitaro, not because she regrets abusing him or because she loves him, but because her friends and family cut her out of their lives and she has no one else to turn to. Keitaro, having [[GrewASpine grown a spine]], refuses]].
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* FairWeatherEx: [[spoiler:At the end of the story, Naru tries to get back with Keitaro, not because she regrets abusing him or because she loves him, but because her friends and family cut her out of their lives and she has no one else to turn to. Keitaro, having [[GrewASpine grown a spine]], refuses]]. refuses. It speaks volumes about how entitled and selfish Naru really is that she would have the nerve to ask Keitaro to take him back after everything she's done and said with her previously, stating that she never wanted to get back together with him again. Motoko, who has since reformed and is regretful for how she treated Keitaro, called Naru out on her actions, saying that she is disgraceful for having the nerve to ask Keitaro to take her back without even apologizing to him.]]
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* BelatedChildDiscipline: [[spoiler:Towards the end of the story, Seta in a attempt to correct his daughter Sarah's bad behavior takes her away from the Hinata Inn and enrolls her in a public school. When this fails, he instead has her placed in the care of a strict boarding school named Saint Clavicus where her attempts at disobedience is met with harsh discipline by the school's headmaster. In response, Sarah yells that Seta isn't the father she remembers and orders him to get out of her life confident that the other residents of Hinata Inn will help her escape. When she learns that none of them are able to help her, she yells that she wants to see her father only to be reminded that she cut him out of her life and that she will have to remain at Saint Clavicus's until she begins attending high school.]]
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* BeyondRedemption: [[spoiler:Naru's the only one whom the narrative demonstrates is simply irredeemable by the very end. Whereas everyone else finally understood how badly they hurt others, Naru's still only focused on what she lost.]]
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* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Deconstructed. Keitaro realizes Naru's not going to become a better person, specifically because he kept enabling her abusive actions by thinking all she needed was patience and understanding. The same extends to the rest of the girls, and they only begin to change once they understand the scope of their deplorable actions. [[spoiler:And even after Naru destroys her life and all her bonds, all she cares about is what she personally lost and not how others suffered thanks to her.]]
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: The Hinata Girls are genuinely awful to each other, just not to the same degree they are towards Keitaro. Once he leaves, they gradually turn on each other and their "friendship" dissolves. Naru especially is horrible towards Shinobu and Kitsune, accusing the former of being "ungrateful" when she has enough of their bullying to the point she was going to beat her up, and constantly calling the latter a manipulative, slutty drunk (and she still tries to say Kitsune is her "best friend"). [[spoiler:By the end of the story, Motoko, Shinobu, and Mitsune have all genuinely repaired their friendship with each other and Keitaro once they atone for their flaws and cut Naru out for good.]]
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* EasilyForgiven: Deconstructed and played straight throughout the fic.
** Deconstructed in Keitaro's case. He realizes forgiving the girls so frequently for their abuse only enabled them to become worse. They're all legitimately shocked that he's holding them to task, arguing he never had a problem with their antics before to the point it's implied they genuinely didn't believe they were doing anything wrong they were that deluded from being sheltered in the Hinata Inn for so long.
** Played straight with Granny Hina and Mutsumi. They're so set on Keitaro and Naru remaining a couple that they repeatedly ignore, excuse, or forgive her for beating him up. They spend all their time trying to convince Keitaro not to break his promise and no effort at all to make Naru stop hurting him, accusing him of holding a grudge or erroneously claiming things would've improved "eventually." [[spoiler:They defy it at the very end when Keitaro's almost killed by Chigusa and Kagura, realizing they were wrong to support Naru and realizing no one's going to forgive ''them'' for helping her.]]
** Deconstructed in Keitaro's case. He realizes forgiving the girls so frequently for their abuse only enabled them to become worse. They're all legitimately shocked that he's holding them to task, arguing he never had a problem with their antics before to the point it's implied they genuinely didn't believe they were doing anything wrong they were that deluded from being sheltered in the Hinata Inn for so long.
** Played straight with Granny Hina and Mutsumi. They're so set on Keitaro and Naru remaining a couple that they repeatedly ignore, excuse, or forgive her for beating him up. They spend all their time trying to convince Keitaro not to break his promise and no effort at all to make Naru stop hurting him, accusing him of holding a grudge or erroneously claiming things would've improved "eventually." [[spoiler:They defy it at the very end when Keitaro's almost killed by Chigusa and Kagura, realizing they were wrong to support Naru and realizing no one's going to forgive ''them'' for helping her.]]
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* LoveCannotOvercome: This provides Keitaro's impetus for leaving the Hinata Inn. He thought he could help Naru be a better person, but after three years of being beaten up by her for things that she's imagined he realizes their "love" is a lost cause that'll likely get him killed if he stays with her.
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** Subverted with Naru and Motoko. Naru obviously brought out the worst in Motoko, as evident by a flashback where she watched Naru pummel Keitaro through the roof for helping Shinobu. Having seen firsthand what happened before Naru arrived, Motoko briefly argued that Keitaro genuinely ''was'' helping Shinobu. Naru ignored Motoko and told her not to trust Keitaro before asking if Motoko's senses as a warrior have dulled. [[spoiler:Motoko in the present realizes she can't blame Naru for her own actions, as she chose to trust her no matter what her conscience told her.]]
