Anelaid said: And that is enough, within Japanese fandom, to define the character around stomach punching.
I'd posit it's more of a vacuum effect to fill the woeful lack of screen time she's gotten after the first episode. The stomach punch was pretty much the only interesting thing she did until episode eight.
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And Homura refuses.
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