Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei

[shinta|hikari]

The Mayumi moment shows that Tatsuya does indeed have emotions. Subdued, but they exist. He had no other motivation to tease her there aside from his own enjoyment.

[Kraco]

The Mayumi moment shows that Tatsuya does indeed have emotions. Subdued, but they exist. He had no other motivation to tease her there aside from his own enjoyment.

Not necessarily. He did absolutely nothing before Mayumi asked if he's not doing anything despite the opportunity. He immediately cracked that joke fitting for James Bond. I'd say it could be perfectly formulated by his intelligence, aided by his knowledge of human psychology. After all, even Terminator knew human psychology, why not Tatsuya? If he doesn't want to go around giving an impression of a robot, he needs to fake emotions every now and then. Preferably leaving very lasting impressions like this one, so that he doesn't need to bother with them all the time.