One striking thing about Natsume is that she is in no way the most powerful, bravest, or most clever, considering she doesn’t even fully understand the true nature of the battle she’s fighting so hard against. All she knows is that she lost her father to the Gadoll and she doesn’t want to see people keep suffering. When Natsume mistakes Kaburagi as a thief, she even offers her meager savings to turn him onto the right path.

Natsume doesn’t have a hero complex so much as a burning desire to do everything she can. Even when people look down on her or belittle her, she doesn’t hate them or seek revenge. She doesn’t appreciate such behavior but she doesn’t let it color how she interacts with others. Natsume will make friends with anyone be they old foes, house-broken Gadoll, or strange robots.

From the time Natsume was a child, people were always telling her what her limits are. With her one metal arm, her dreams of being a Tanker and fighting Gadoll head-on are ridiculed. Nevertheless, she takes every opportunity to pursue this dream from strength-training in her spare time to (begrudgingly) blackmailing her boss for fighting lessons.

Natsume can’t truly disregard people’s feelings to the extent of treating them unfairly, though, so Natsume will valiantly state her case unafraid of conflict before she leaves them in peace. She’s not afraid to do work herself no matter how pointless it seems either. Whether it’s fighting Gadoll way stronger than her or pushing giant weapons ten times too heavy for her, Natsume feels that the only impossible thing is giving up before it’s over.

The battle to free Dece-Dence is not fought by Natsume alone, and there were many people with specific skills/powers that allowed Natsume’s dreams to be realized but none of them would have acted without Natsume’s influence. Most of the time, people didn’t even believe in her but found it impossible to ignore her determination while they did nothing. Inevitably, one person’s change of heart would impact another close to them who had 0 desire to change things the way Natsume wanted them.

Natsume’s former best friend fought so hard against Natsume’s plans for improvement wanting only to protect the peace between them. Yet even with such a difficult task of trying to get people to care for others, she inspires others to go find materials to repair a wall thought impossible to fix which, in turn, moves others. Kaburagi is a very important factor in releasing Deca-Dence from Solid Quake’s clutches but that, again, is all thanks to Natsume. Kaburagi would have died with regret if he hadn’t seen Natsume fighting such a pointless battle. Being unafraid of death released him from the chains that immobilized many of his fellow cyborgs.

Thankfully, while Minato still believed in the system and just wanted to protect Kaburagi, he allowed Kaburagi to move against the corporation in a way he wouldn’t have had access to on his own. This leads to the pleasure-seeking Donatello who fights not for justice, but because he wants to follow his own path unhindered. While many of these characters weren’t even in contact with Natsume, it’s clear that without her influence, they would never have moved on their own.