[Perhaps surprisingly, the answer when it comes gets her to duck her head a little bit, reflecting on how conspicuously similar it sounds to something she'd said herself not long ago — an odd sort of apology that seemed warranted despite its apparent ill fit.

To respond to something like that...how did it go?]

I understand.

[...Probably not like that, um.]

It's good to be here, where we have the freedom and perspective to be able to exchange amends like that. Away from school.

[...dammit, Kirigiri.]