[ he looks a bit taken aback at her confidence for a moment, before smiling and nodding. ] Right.

[ admittedly, he wasn't sure how things would go when he chose to enter the game looking for a cure... he'd always been the type to act first, think later. once he was in the game itself, so many problems had come up that he hadn't really had a chance to stop and think through what he was doing.

so, perhaps for the first time, he was actually beginning to feel optimistic about this entire excursion. ]

It's strange though, isn't it? This entire thing... why would the cure for something that happened outside the game be inside it? [ in fact, would ingesting something in a game really cure him outside of it? ]