[ There are others to thank in the equation, really. There's Silver and Gold. There's Chiyuki. Sportacus, in his own way. Hanyuu, almost certainly.

But she didn't want to understate what Lusamine means to her, and how monumental that felt to her to even ask, at the time.

Elda's smile shifts from that sort of knowing matter of fact thing to something softer.

And she ... ]

I might have. [ But she laughs ] But I assure you now, if you come to harm from me, it will only ever be necessity now, and I will come to your aide.