When everyone became sick, it certainly took us by surprise. We, um... Sayaka-chan, Kyouko-chan and everyone at bakery where fine but- all lot of others were not. I thought that maybe that was the worst of it, but then the bombs came again. Something like that, it doesn't get any easier even if you've already experienced it before.

[ she pauses in the turning of her ring, glancing up with a slightly more serious look. ] But I suppose the worst of it was more recently. Kyouko-chan was badly hurt and I... [ a sigh. ]

Can I ask you something? Do you think that it's strange or cowardly, that in a place like this where we can revived upon death, to... still be afraid of dying? Be so afraid, regret so much and worry so badly even though in an hour or so none of that would have mattered.