«R-Return to Elyndra? A-Are you serious…?» Eliss stammers, incredulous. «I-I should be happy… I guess…»
Yet her melancholic tone and distressed expression show anything but happiness. Her whole body goes stiff — her handbag slips out of her hand and her wide-open eyes stare straight ahead, frozen.
«A-Aoshi… he knew — he knew that tonight you would come to take me back home, didn't he?» she asks, her voice trembling. It's a rhetorical question, though — one she has already answered herself.
Of course… now I understand his strange attitude tonight. Now I understand why he was willing to do anything to keep me from going to work. Now everything is so clear, so obvious…
How the hell did I not figure it out by myself?
T-That idiot… I was so angry with him, thinking he was just making fun of my feelings, when in reality all he wanted… was to spend with me my last hours on Earth…
I… I feel so guilty about what I told him.
He didn't deserve it… he really didn't deserve it…
