[lili is so rarely careful, and she walks along with him, and it's only because it's kaoru that she doesn't seem to feel entirely led astray. but there's a tenseness that floods her body when her eyes glance briefly downward at what's below and she can remember it, the panic, the fear, the despair—

she looks forward again, and lets herself be angry instead.]

They don't need to save me - I'm tired of being saved. You know that.

[right? because this is her partner, and he knows her well, and her eyes flash with something determined even as her hand starts to tremble.]

I'm here to... To do what I have to! And I'm going to protect you, and I'll protect everyone that I can!