This is far from being a bad thing, but Riko makes me think StrikerS-era Nanoha walked onto the Trouble Spirit set and never left, so they decided to write her in.
Since I am just reading anything Minami puts out, I can't help but think "Hey look, it's a talking version of Ruko" now...
It's been too long since we've seen some of these characters.
On strike?STRIKE!Bringing that out here and now is kinda...Deducing the ReasonOn strike, huh... so that must meanthat maybe there's something she's dissatisfied with at home......lessons...*mumble*"Lessons"? ...Ah, that's it!Ricchan has to take lessons for many things at home!I see! So she got sick of it!Isn't that completely unrelated!?Purposely Handcrafted...So that's the story, Onee-chan.*bow*Even so, it's not like you had to bring her here.Hirabayashi-san... was it?Why are you running away from home?...I'm on strike!...I had a fight with my sister.