"I don't know, we did a decent job of catching up to him at least," she respond with a gentle expression. More often than not they'd finally caught up with him after he'd been knocked down. It'd probably been a small favor that they hadn't been able to go further into Tartarus with just the three of them. She fell silent for a moment and then looked down awkwardly.

"Shinjiro, there...I should tell you something." After all, she had said she'd try to be more open with the others, hadn't she? Still...she wasn't even sure where to start.