[ She has most certainly met things more fearsome, if only in that Midnight invariably means no harm. If one measures in intention, this strange Miss has more to fear from a puppy.

Not that Midnight sees fit to let go of the image. It doesn't matter. ]

Must have been, if you arrived today as well. I had some more specific items on my shopping list.

[ Alcohol, for one, although convenience stores do appear to sell them in the way they did back in Higashi. The blood, however, was a more specific grocery item. ]

Whether we stay or leave is a concern I leave to a future that hasn't come yet. The present has brought me to you, dear stranger, hasn't it? What's to say that kinder, lovelier things aren't yet to come?

[ It sounds... stupid, honestly. Midnight says it anyway, because he honestly doesn't know. ]