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  • Mission 1:
  • Mission 2:
    • Despite being a child, Anya shows an uncanny talent for manipulating events when Loid and Yor happen to meet up. Knowing that Loid has his doubts about asking Yor to be his wife, and that Yor thinks Loid already has a wife since he has a child, Anya immediately says that she "longs for a mama" while acting the part. This one act helps clear up Yor's misunderstanding and leads her to ask Loid about being her pretend boyfriend, and indirectly, leads Loid and Yor to their fake marriage in the first place.
    • Speaking of, there's the marriage proposal itself. With his diamond ring nowhere in sight, and the two of them being shot at, Loid takes a nearby grenade and pulls its pin. As he says his vows, he throws the grenade at his "patients" and slips the pin on Yor's finger, capped off by the giant explosion.
  • Mission 3:
    • Even when she's having to deal with all the mental noise from the multiple people nearby, to the point she's suffering a Psychic Nosebleed, Anya manages to pinpoint the thief, masking her intent by telling Loid she wants cake - just as the thief walks past a cake shop.
    • Loid quickly asks Yor to take care of Anya and runs after the thief, jumping on him from a bridge above and knocking him out in one hit.
  • Mission 4:
    • Yor stops a rampaging cow right in her tracks by hitting some pressure points on her body. Not only does the cow go out like a light, but the other stampeding animals promptly decide they want no part of this and calm down/move away from her ASAP. How she explains this goes right into hilarious territory.
    • Meanwhile, Anya uses her abilities to realize that the paralyzed cow is afraid, and gently pets it to calm it down. Nobody else would have approached this formerly rampaging animal, let alone attempted to empathize with it. The Forgers are truly a Badass Family.
  • Mission 5: During the entrance interview for Eden Academy, Mr. Swan, an utter hardball whose deteriorating relationship with his family makes him lash out at other families, hits Anya with a massive curveball when he asks whether she prefers her stepmother, Yor, or her birth mother. Realizing she never had a mother before Yor makes Anya suffer a Heroic BSoD. As Swan continues to be an ass about the less-than-pristine state of the Forger family, Yor starts menacingly cracking her knuckles as she enters Thorn Princess mode, indicating that she's seconds away from messily murdering Swan for bullying Anya to tears. Before she can, Loid reaches his own breaking point for the same reason and punches... the table, under the pretense of crushing a mosquito, and caving it in with the sound of a gunshot. Disgusted with Swan, he and his family leave. After they step out of the room, Mr. Henderson punches Swan himself for being such a jerk. Keep in mind that Twilight/Loid needs Anya to get into this school for his mission, yet he says that if insulting a child's feelings is how things are done in Eden College, then "we've clearly chosen the wrong school". While the Forger family spends the rest of the day sulking about it, Anya is ultimately granted acceptance into Eden when someone else drops out.
  • Mission 6: In the anime, Anya's pretend Bondman game is turned into a virtual gauntlet, very similar to the show's situation that she wants to roleplay:
    • Here, it goes beyond the ballroom and across the whole castle. It includes dozens of minions (actually his fellow spies playing parts), high-velocity projectiles (oversized ball pen orbs), and a pseudo-Bullet Hell trap with numerous gunmen. Even if it's all make-believe, Loid - or rather, Twilight - is clearly putting his real skills into it, weaving through obstacles, fighting with his bare fists and dual-wielding guns all with ease. In one instance, when a minion accidentally shoots upward after being shot by Loid, the latter then shoots several of the orbs and they end up hitting Franky high above.
    • Near the end he uses his belt as an Improvised Zipline, dodging pre-programmed jets of flames set off by his fellow agents, and as he jumps off to land he puts it back on in midair. It's as awesome as it is ridiculous, and he even gets a "Cool guys don't look at explosions" moment after landing.
    • His fight with Yor also gets more attention. While he's on the defensive the whole time, he's able to endure not only a flurry of punches, but also kicks, with all of it beautifully choreographed. Even as his gloves are shredded to bits, he manages to stay standing against this onslaught with minimal injuries afterward. An impressive feat considering this is Yor we're talking about, though he acknowledges that Yor was quite capable of killing him if she kept the attacks up, and very nearly did so after breaking his defense and preparing a kick aimed straight for his head. Only Yor's heel snapping under the strength of her kicks at the last second saved him from serious injury. Keep in mind, she's stone drunk during this.
  • Mission 7: Yor's Mama Bear tendencies kick in when a handful of thugs attempt to kidnap Anya for ransom; with a single jab of her bare hand, she carves through a pumpkin one tries to lob at her before it can even leave his hand. Her strike ended barely an inch from the thug's head, the shock wave alone blowing his cheek back as if hit by a strong wind, making it perfectly clear that he would've been dead in an instant if she had aimed one inch more to the right. Plus, the assumption that she's Anya's nanny only enraged her even further. It ends up being a Mook Horror Show for the kidnappers, as Yor's strength intimidates them so much that they say "Screw This, I'm Outta Here" and run away as fast as they can.
    Yor: I am that girl's mother! Do you hear me!? If you don't want to end up like that vegetable, I suggest you leave right now!
  • Extra Mission 1:
    • Loid finishes what is implied to be a large number of missions in a very short time so he can go to the aquarium with Yor and Anya.
    • Anya subtly helps Loid in his mission by pointing out that one of the penguins is sick.
    • Loid manages to memorize the names, plumage, and eating habits of the aquarium's 200+ penguins in a few minutes, then feeds all of them in seconds. He does the job so well that the new guy he knocked out and impersonated gets promoted upon awakening and returning.
      • It is made even more awesome in the anime, in which Loid feeding the penguins in seconds is akin to Moses parting the Sea of Reeds.
    • Loid quickly and very easily outs the enemy spy seeking the microfilm he was looking for when he presents a fake ID card and disarms him with a bucket.
    • Anya finds the spy and hears him planning to have Loid killed. She solves this by grabbing his coat and catching Yor's attention by claiming she was being kidnapped. Yor proceeds to kick the spy right into the ceiling, so hard he gets stuck headfirst.
  • Mission 8:
    • Even if it gets her in trouble, Anya's single punch to Damian after he pushed her too far. After just a bit of training from Yor, the kid went flying.
    • When accused of hitting Damian for no reason, even under pressure, Anya remembers Yor's advice and quickly thinks of Damian's friends stepping on Becky's foot, saying that she was defending her friend. Particularly since in hindsight, while the foot-stepping is just offscreen, Anya was looking there right when it happened - in short, Anya is learning some of her parents' best traits and using them to full effect.
  • Extra Mission 2, where Anya reads the mind of a gang member who avoided assassination by Yor and who's seeking revenge. When he plans to use a suicide bomb to kill her, Anya slips him up, makes a non-lethal version of the bomb he was going to use within moments of reading the ingredients from his mind, and threatens him to the point where he abandons his crusade against Yor. Yor never finds out about any of this.
    Loid: If a spy does their job right, they will never make the news.
  • In Mission 16, after a cavalcade of failures in finding a way to earn a Stella, Anya hears a boy's mind crying out for help as he drowns in a hospital pool. She immediately excuses herself from Loid's presence, books it to the pool, and dives in to save him even though she can't lift him out. However, her presence leads Loid to both of them, saving the child's life. This act of bravery earns her the first Stella in her entire grade and makes her realize that she does truly have a talent.
  • In Mission 17, the students in Anya's class begin spreading rumors about her possibly being awarded her Stella by mistake, or through bribery. When one student tries to get Damian involved, he responds with a short but sweet "The Reason You Suck" Speech essentially calling them all idiots for thinking the most prestigious school in the country is handing out its merits by mistake. This is despite the fact that he was utterly infuriated by the fact that Anya got a Stella before he did.
  • At the end of Mission 19, Yor jump-kicks a terrorist trying to kill Anya and sends him pinballing through the alleyway. He hits the walls three times before one last impact with the ground. Made even better in the anime, where he hits the walls three times and then hits the ground, bounces back, hits the wall again and then is sent flying for a few moments before crashing into the ground.
    • Yor then manages to give a Death Glare that sends a trained attack dog running for its life.
  • Midway through Mission 20, after one of the terrorists says that he wants a war, The Handler responds with a fantastic speech - in an utterly calm, yet low tone - that completely tears apart their position because there is nothing "glorious" or "righteous" about what they ignorantly want.
    The Handler: Apparently you learned nothing about war at your university, foolish children.
  • Mission 21: Brave little Anya once again becomes a hero through her telepathy, by reading and preventing the catastrophic bombing and political assassination foreseen by Doggie, saving the world from another tragic (and this time potentially nuclear) World War. In spite of not becoming the emotionless and obedient pawn that her creators intended her to be, the powers they gave Anya did succeed in serving to protect peace and humanity. The anime caps off the revised foresight of Loid's return to the once-dreary family with the jazzy version of the main theme after he manages to stop his teammate in time.
  • Mission 22 has a pair for Loid and Yor:
    • Loid follows through on his apology to Keith's remaining dog, shooting its bomb vest off and tossing the explosive into the river despite getting bitten anyway. After everything, just his silhouette alone is enough to intimidate Keith into speeding away in terror, where he looks like a vengeful phantom with Glowing Eyes of Doom, especially fitting considering he just barely avoided dying less than an hour ago.
    • Yor, from a bridge, spots the fleeing Keith in his car and recognizes him from their earlier confrontation. This being Yor, she leaps off the bridge to land in the street, then in the manga kicks the oncoming car *head on* so hard that Keith's vehicle flies straight into a light pole like a football. In the Anime, it is played more "realistically" as Yor dodges the speeding vehicle and drives a side-kick into its left flank, sending it skidding out of control into said light pole instead. Either way, Yor's intervention closes the case.
    • At the end, Handler and several WISE agents are disguised as SSS officers cleaning up loose ends by taking the weaponized dogs away. However, when they reach for "Doggy", Anya, knowing perfectly well who they are, manages to get them and Twilight to back off by threatening to never go to school again if they don't let her keep him.
  • In Mission 28, Anya defends Damian from George's attempt to frame him for smoking and attacking him. Even after how badly he's treated her she still comes to his defense, albeit motivated by Twilight's mission.
    • The anime-original post-addition in Episode 19 has a few for Yor: upon seeing a flower pot in mid-fall, feet from shattering upon the ground, she flash steps and catches it on her foot, before using a handstand motion to send it right back into the hands of the oblivious owner. Then she pulls off some Le Parkour scenes as she rushes to Eden Academy (to give Anya her gym clothes), and even a quick stealth segment where Yor avoids a crowd of Eden students, going virtually unnoticed until she finds Anya. Though it turns out she didn't need to make the trip.
  • Missions 32-33 have Twilight and Nightfall participating in a tennis tournament. Specifically a tennis tournament where their opponents have rocket-powered rackets, snipers, wind, and even dividing the court itself into 36 segments that can be manipulated on the sidelines. Despite all of that, the two spies continue to adapt their play styles to every new trick they face and eventually win the tournament, and the anime really brings it home with fast-paced, superbly-flowing animation. The only reason they lost the first set was because they were drugged in their waiting room and they still made a comeback.
    • The reason why they were playing in a tournament in the first place was to secure a painting with valuable intel on it. But before they can do so, the SSS calls Campbell and expressly forbid him from handing away the painting. It's a minor hiccup in Twilight's plan as he disguises himself and swaps the painting with a forgery that he brought along just in case.
  • Mission 34 has one for Yor. After Nightfall challenges Yor to a tennis match, Yor swings her racket so hard that it slices the ball to pieces, while on her second attempt to serve it (trying to hold back), she manages to send the ball flying at supersonic speeds. Nightfall smashes her racket trying in vain to send it back, causing the woman to run away crying.
  • In Mission 40, Bond's presence allows him and Loid to ambush the tech guys who otherwise might've caught Loid by surprise. Together they take out two by landing on them from behind, Loid throws his bag at the other's face, and then Bond jumps up and drop kicks the last guy.
  • Mission 46 has one for Yor's elderly boss. He is able to disarm an assassin, interrogate him (read: break his bones with ease) and then dispose of him without drawing any attention to himself on a crowded cruise.
  • Mission 47
    • During the attack on their room, Yor is instantly able to recognize the sound of a gun cocking and in a split second gets everyone in the room out of the line of fire. She then throws one of her stiletto daggers through a closed door, into the assassin's head, and pins the man's head to a wall.
    • Later, Yor is in a crowded ballroom filled with masked guests. In an instant, she is able to detect where an assassin is, then throw a button hard enough to knock the guy out without raising anyone's attention. A second very muscular assassin arrives and Yor grabs the man two times her size by the hands, and while pretending to dance leads him away from his target. The man is completely unable to free himself from Yor's grip, and indeed, Yor's moving as if he isn't struggling at all. After maneuvering him in front of a chair, she crushes the man's hands and then knocks him out with a slap before he can scream in pain. He collapses into the chair with no one in the room noticing what she did.
    • During the briefing of their collective mission to kill Baby Gram and his mother Olga, one of the killers present had the gall to gleefully suggest making the job easier by murdering every woman and baby on board. He's instantly stabbed in the heart and neck by two rightfully-disgusted assassins, with the Nameless Leader angrily berating him even as his body turns cold.
      (Throws his worthless corpse to the sharks overboard)
  • Mission 48
    • Facing off a sickle-and-chain-wielding opponent, Yor has some trouble getting close to him, yet Anya comes in for the save by making the whole thing out to be a circus performance. This gets the crowd cheering, which briefly distracts the assassin... and this costs him dearly; the moment his gaze is back on Yor, she's lunging at him with the most terrifying expression. He attempts to get her, but Yor pins his weapon to the floor with her dagger before grabbing the other end behind him, then - leaping into the air - she promptly chains him up with his own weapon. Still in mid-air, she deftly uses several pressure points to knock him unconscious while standing up, before making a smooth landing herself and giving a bow as 'fellow performers'.
  • Missions 51-53
    • Yor's climactic fight against the main assassin force was awesome to begin with, but in animated form we can fully appreciate the sheer speed and brutality of the fight as Yor shows what she's truly capable of in an extended bout. Between her ridiculous combat skills and a few assists from the Director, all but a few of the opportunistic assassins on the cruise ship end up neutralized or dead by her hands, and the civilian passengers are none the wiser.
    • She protects Olka from a sniper, only getting grazed in the process, by sensing him in time to move before he fires. In the same instant she launches one of her stilleto daggers back in the direction of the attack, nearly impaling him.
    • An assassin wielding multiple kunai knives attacks from above, Yor dodging the thrown knives, disarming one of his hands with a kick, and then aiming for him with her Razor-Sharp Hand. To his credit he blocks with yet another kunai (reinforced with both his hands) but is still pushed back quite a distance by the force. After he lands, the kunai Yor struck proceeds to shatter into pieces.
    • Zeb gets his own awesome moment, protecting Olka from gunfire with his body (he has a bulletproof vest on) and closing the hatch to the room they are sheltering in even as he falls into it.
    • When an assassin with grenades threatens the Gretchers, Yor kicks him so hard and fast that he ricochets off the ship twice, and is thrown into the sea before his grenade can go off. Yor proceeds to turn to the rest of the assassins with an enraged expression and steam coming out of her mouth, and the fight kicks into high gear.
    • When a fellow dual dagger wielder disarms Yor of one of her stilettos he thinks he has her, only for Yor to catch the flung stiletto and in one smooth motion, she stabs the assassin vertically through his throat and into his brain with such force that he is left dangling from the stiletto before Yor lets him drop to the ground.
    • A bucktooth assassin wielding Wolverine Claws proves too quick and agile for the Director to shoot, only for Yor to outpace the man with ease and kill him.
    • Briefly disarmed of her daggers by surprise attacks, she uses an electric baton like a spear to kill one assassin (impaling him through the teeth and into the skull) and proceeds to repeatedly hit a massive man with Razor-Sharp Hand, with the result looking like he was hit with machine gun fire as he collapses dead in a rain of blood.
    • Facing a strong swordsman without her daggers? Yor proceeds to sword fight with kicks from her heels.
      • As Yor fights said assassin, Yor begins to question why she continues her bloody work. As she starts to lose the fight, she reflects on the stresses of her double life and the fact Yuri no longer needs her support. Then she remembers why she continues to work as an assassin: to protect people. First Yuri, and now the Forger family.
        Yor: I don't need to be at peace. (grasps the assassin's sword and breaks it) I don't care if I have to bloody my hands. Even if it means living a life that could end at any moment... even if it means having to leave the Forger family...
        Loid: (in a flashback to Mission 2) To endure such a harsh job for the sake of another, for the sake of something greater than oneself... I truly admire that.
        Yor: I think Loid would respect that. He would understand. (Yor beats the assassin back) And that's why... I won't give up this fight!
  • Missions 54-55
    • As Yor continues her fight with the lone assassin (unable to get close enough to finish him without her weapon), Anya finds one of Yor's daggers stuck in the floor, and attempts to return it to her. It lands far away where no one saw or heard it... yet when two goons attempt to get at Olka while Yor's distracted, one trips over it and hits his head hard, while inadvertently shooting his partner. This commotion gets Yor's attention, and allows her to retrieve her dagger and end the assassin's life in a Single-Stroke Battle.
    • Loid overhears the SSS agents discussing a found bomb, and after donning a disguise proceeds to not only work upon it himself, he also directs all officers on board to search for others (because he reasoned this one bomb isn't nearly enough to sink the ship). Then when he hears word about a bomb found in a clock - due to Anya coincidentally overhearing the location from the Nameless Leader - he sees there's not enough time to disarm it, and physically rips the entire clock off its post. Running with all haste, he throws the bomb off the ship... which leads it right above Snoops and the Nameless Leader; kaboom. The last we see of them, sharks are circling.
  • Missions 58.1 and 58.2 are a two-parter focusing on Loid and Bond. The two of them end up working together to save a puppy from a burning building and foil a serial arsonist, with Loid giving the latter a vicious OHKO when he tries to shank Bond.
  • Mission 59: While under the mistaken impression that Becky's drunk alcohol, Yor (rushing to get to a hospital) sees too late that a car is about to hit her. She simply throws Becky into the air, gets hit and is sent rolling, then before Becky can hit the ground, Yor's back up and catches her while simultaneously running without once breaking stride. When we see the stunned driver who hit her, the car's hood is dented, while Yor only suffered a small nosebleed from the impact.
  • Mission 70:
    • Bill Watkins defiantly stands up to the hijackers and tries to console a carful of his terrified schoolmates that their parents, rich and powerful people, are going to save them.
    • Damian, Anya, and Becky team up in order to get a message out by throwing a metal tin with Becky's school ID and a coded note for Blackbell Industries, even after they were threatened at gunpoint not to attempt anything. Anya's Rising Hope throw finally succeeds.
  • Mission 72: After the SSS had to bind Yuri to a pole to prevent him from helping in the bus hijacking involving Anya - since he's at risk of being recognized by her and blowing his cover - he pleads to investigate the second hijacked bus since no one there would recognize him and he has plenty of informants in that location. After gathering information and several clues, he easily finds the second bus holed away in a warehouse. Despite being a crazed goofball regarding his sister, Yuri is still an excellent SSS agent.
  • Mission 73: When Yuri and the SSS assault the second bus terrorists, Yuri punches out one guy before he's shot in the shoulder by another, yet he brushes it off and wipes the floor with the shooter - only after the adrenaline's worn off does the pain truly register with him. Much like his sister Yor, what should do more than "just hurt" merely annoys him when he's dead serious.
  • Mission 74:
    • Anya uses her telepathy to push all of Billy Squire's emotional buttons. While her first effort is somewhat clumsy, her early bluffs are enough to poke through his defenses and surmises from his memories that her presence will keep Squire from taking action. Her utmost confidence in her reassertion of Twilight's creed ends up convincing him to give up his crusade entirely.
    • Martha jumps off an SSS soldier's head and tazes Vadim in mid-air when the latter uses Anya as a human shield, then catches Anya before she can even hit the ground when Vadim drops her. This puts an end to the busjacking, with all members put under arrest and the kids finally free to go home.
  • Mission 75:
    • After the bus hijacking events were wrapped up, Bill, Damian, Becky, and Anya are awarded Stella Stars for their bravery in the face of danger and for concocting the plan which got the attention of the authorities.
    • Once the Red Circus has been arrested, and the children have been reunited with their parents, it's revealed that Loid wrapped up his mission abroad and rushed back to Berlint as quickly as possible, and he and another WISE agent donned the disguise of SWAT operatives, showing that he was more than ready to storm the bus and rescue his daughter himself.
    • Yor is confirmed to be capable of running faster than a speeding car, to the point she needs to skid along the ground while kicking up a massive dust cloud like a vehicle decelerating just to apply enough force to stop. When she's approaching Anya's position, the panel even has a 'VRRRM' sound-effect bubble, as if Yor's running sounds like an actual car.
  • Mission 82:
    • As a testament to how Crazy-Prepared WISE and Twilight are, they had a fountain in Shellbury, which is known as particularly dangerous territory for intelligence operatives given how firmly under the SSS' control it is, primed with explosives just in case Twilight's attempt to disguise himself as Wheeler failed. Even when WISE is caught off-guard, they still have several contingency plans nested into contingency plans.
    • The SSS impresses with a rather ingenious plan of its own - when giving Wheeler the intel on what to do to establish he's the real stool pigeon to the SSS, the men at the top specified that Wheeler was to wear a green tie with a gemstone pin. As a potential trap for counter-espionage from Westalis, however, the top brass told each member of their Communications division something slightly different. Namely, they gave a specific tie pin color to each member of the Comms division specifically to root out rats - if Wheeler was specific about the color of his tie pin, that would serve as a signal that that Wheeler was a fake, and reveal exactly who squealed. In a single clever move, the SSS has put Twilight on the back foot and caught a rat.
    • Finally, after dozens upon dozens of Missions of build-up, we finally get a direct confrontation between Yuri Briar and Twilight... and it is immediately made clear that if not for Twilight hesitating due to his wife's connection to Yuri, Twilight could have easily killed him the moment they locked eyes. Yuri himself realizes how easily he walked into Twilight's trap, and can only come to the conclusion he is about to die until Twilight's hesitation gives him time to recover.

  • Mission 83:
    • The fight between Yuri and Twilight displays just how dangerous both men are. Twilight clearly outmatches Yuri in actual fighting ability at every turn, but every time he thinks he's won, Yuri just keeps getting back up until he's at his utmost physical limits. Twilight wonders if this is a direct result of being raised by Yor.
      • Yuri also deserves some credit for immediately sussing out that Twilight is hesitating because he might have some connection to Yor. While Twilight is able to eventually shake him off the trail, those are some serious deductive chops.
    • We get to see exactly why Nightfall is a WISE agent - she may not be considered Twilight's equal, but her skills of observation are as close to Twilight's as one can reasonably get. Though Wheeler works around WISE's plan to get him to show himself in a crowd by reacting too quickly to a car crash for anyone normal, he lets slip the smallest of tells; he glances just a bit too quickly, using the reflective glass in the car to keep tailing the man he thinks is working with the SSS. Nightfall actually notices this, even if she remarks this was only possible because Wheeler wasn't wearing sunglasses, and manages to catch up to him.
  • Mission 85:
    • Nightfall absolutely loses it as she notices Wheeler try to tear off Twilight's disguise, causing her to use Uninhibited Muscle Power. Wheeler's Hyper-Awareness initially sees her reckless attack as easy to counter... and to his horror, Nightfall moves way faster than she should be able to, forcing him to block, yet she hits so hard that the blow breaks his arm as well as her own.
    • She then gives Wheeler a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, that he's a coward who's afraid of dying or caring about others, treating his mission as if it's a game for personal amusement.
    • Nightfall continues her attack, breaking her leg and dislocating her other arm in the process while still hitting way harder and faster than Wheeler expects. She finishes the fight by hitting him hard and knocking him out with her own dislocated arm, a move that Wheeler didn't think possible due to assuming that she no longer could attack with them.
  • Mission 86: After the whole ordeal, Yuri barges into the Forger household and notices Loid's right arm might be hurt, then puts two-and-two together and comes to the correct conclusion that it must be the same wound he inflicted onto Twilight earlier... only to discover there's nothing there, which causes him to drop his reasoning that Twilight is someone close to him and chalks it up to pure skill. The next scene in the shower proves him right for a different reason, as Twilight used his trademark Latex Perfection over his bullet wound.
  • Mission 91:
    • When members of the Lady Patriots try to blame Millie for "being selfish" by (in their view) taking for granted the comfortable lives young adults can now lead in Ostania post-war, Yor outright defends her by saying that she's lost her parents, that everyone suffered on the home front as did those directly in the war; yet she and the others are helping out while these elders are simply blaming others and showing no empathy for how the young adults of Ostania suffered during the war.
    • Camilla and Sharon both back Yor up, with the former saying not to lump them in as she comforts Millie, while the latter calmly retorts that not everyone can be expected to deal with suffering and loss as well as some others do, that emotional abilities vary just as physical strength varies. This reinforces the visual point Yor made earlier, where after the older women state no one should get special treatment, Yor lifts ten stacked boxes and states that since she can do this then that means these women—who all had witnessed Yor's Super-Strength in Mission 65—should also each lift ten boxes.
    • Not long after, Melinda has her own cold words for the organizers' attitudes:
      (grabbing the woman's arm, stopping her from slapping Yor) Stop that. You're embarrassing yourself.
      Does "supporting each other" mean policing each other's behavior? No, of course not. That would be a return to wartime regression.
  • Mission 93:
    • Anya finally does it. Through intense study and hard work, Anya actually manages to earn a Stella through academic achievement, blitzing past all her contemporaries and scoring second in her entire grade in Classical Language studies. That she got a Tonitrus for failing so hard in math is, as noted by Twilight himself, immaterial next to just how much work she put in to achieve her third Stella.
    • Not only does Anya earn a Stella, her overall class ranking surges upward as well, with Becky noting Anya went from a pathetic 213th place to an actually adequate 168th.
  • Mission 94 shows what happens if you put the Forger Family into a (attempted-)murder mystery setting. Loid calmly tends to the backstabbed victim - who survives thanks to him - fixes the cut phone lines to get help from the police, and uses his detective skills to determine that the culprit is one of the people present. Anya and Bond do their thing, instantly figuring out who the culprit is and when they'll try to kill again, then the former manipulates Loid to catch the culprit red-handed during the night (while Yor keeps watch over Anya). As a result, what would traditionally span a few chapters as an arc is solved in the span of a night, just in time for the police to take the culprit away the next morning.

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