[ Spirits, huh. Sounds like Souji's experience was very different from his. ]

Some creature attacked me; I stabbed it, but it's blood was poisonous and it...ate my body away. Hardly a fight that I put up. [ He says this quietly, and somewhat in a rush, but it's attempt to commiserate. ] It seems that fortune was with neither of us down there.

[ His own secret is safe, but he's sure in time, he'd be found out as well. ]