Friendliness doesn't make one any less deadly, when the moment calls for it.

[ iwatooshi considers himself pretty friendly, after all. ]

That is what I thought, too. I don't want to suspect them, when they've been open about wanting to help us, but we mustn't forget how little we still know of them all. I do think it's more likely that others were responsible, though. They seem to be outliers among their cult.