Loved the depiction of Yatori's post-fight bloodlust. Just extremely well done. I don't know if I've ever seen that in anime before.

Think of Yatori as a Sword Saint. She's honed her one particular skill to the extreme, at the expense of all else.

She's really only as tactically inclined as she is because she knows Ikta so well. She anticipated what he would do, and deliberately misinterpreted her orders as much as possible in order to allow for her return, thus sparing her commander.