It doesn't-- [Matter, she almost finishes with, but she cuts herself off with a guilty look. After all, she was fully expecting and prepared to die after she got home, but it's not as though Shinpachi knew that.

And it wasn't as though that steadfast desire wasn't waning as time went by.] Friends... [Right. She'd said that herself, hadn't she? But the last friend that got involved was currently laying in a coma straddling the line of living and dead.

Rei looks up and lets him catch her gaze for a moment before looking away as she considers.] Yeah. I'll-- When we get out of here, I'll tell you... everything. [She looks down at the tattoo covering her hand and feels her heart ache.]

But in the meantime, don't we have monsters to fight? Or something like that?