>(moved thread to appropriate forum; I know Chapter 2 is
>a little confusing in that regard, in that Korra appears in it, but
>TFLF isn't part of the Dìqiú Suite. :)
>
>>-Mugi claims to have planted a tracker in Sawako, and what's the
>>reaction? "Well, that's convenient."
>
>In fairness, that was Yui's reaction, and the others were all a
>bit preoccupied staring out the window.
>
>>Not "What?", "How?", or even "Why?".

Well, there was Ritsu, with her casual "That's our Mugi-chan."
Like she -expects- Mugi to come up with something totally off-the-wall, like, oh, I dunno, a vacation home on Suomi IV....

>Well, I have rather suspected for a while now that the Kotobuki
>Group is actually some kind of vast extralegal syndicate, and the
>things like the music store the girls go to and that tea shop they
>worked at in one episode are just the Legitimate Fronts. In this
>view, Mugi is sort of the family's Michael Corleone. You can see her
>in her mid-20s, talking with her mysterious never-seen father about
>how he always hoped she would be Senator Kotobuki, or
>Governor Kotobuki, or something...

... yeah. I can so totally see that.
(I just got through the episode where she spends multiple days -trying to provoke one of the others into bopping her on the head-, just out of solidarity with Ritsu who's always getting bopped...)