While Saori found survival and related training a fulfilling experience, the private military contractors hired by the Royal Embassy in Minato City could only see her as a particularly terrible student: confrontational, quick to provoke, and in the absence of firearms, eager to resort to hand-to-hand violence, particularly with her hands, elbows, and teeth. More than a few otherwise imposing veterans of mercenary conflicts found themselves humbled by the relatively diminutive blonde woman.

"What, are you boys already giving up? This was just starting to get entertaining, you should learn to take the cold better!"