“Most truths have an element of sadness to them. It's better to know the truth though." Always. It was always better to know the truth than to be blinded by it. Though, she shared his sentiment in thinking that it would be nice if the young had more time to keep illusions of optimism alive. Perhaps it was strange that she didn't count herself among those 'young' despite her actual age. In the end though Mitsuru had never really been given the chance to be young.

"Perhaps even less eager now after they caused such a mess." That was another thing she had some personal experience with. She'd kept quite a few things from her peers and from her friends in general, things tied directly to just how connected her family's research was to the disasters around them. "It's rarely easy to acknowledge fault, especially when it has such dire consequences." She cast her gaze away from him for a second and then shook her head. "Isn't it strange that all of these," she gestured around at the books. "appeared but nothing to do with these resets and research?" Now that she thought on it, that seemed rather...odd to say the least.

"If you do discover anything from her, do let me know. I would be curious about what she recalls of this other place she was kept." If only to be prepared should something happen to her or someone she cared for.

Her small frown lessened at his words and she looked up at him with an expression that was almost grateful. "Thank you." There was no denying that she still thought that she could have done more, should have done more, but she was also a realist. They had done their best given the circumstances around them and that had been all they could have done. Sometimes it was...nice to hear those words from another, especially someone impartial and completely uninvolved with the situation and it's complexities.

To his question she nodded. "I have. It's a treasure tied to Arthurian language, said to grant eternal youth?"