[ Oh, she would show him how serious. And she wouldn't need her notes for that either, considering she has already carried the weight of what's in them for two weeks already--if not longer. Still, as confident as she appears or wants to be, it doesn't change the fact that she is just a girl who wants to be closer to her brother.

Her nerves tingle and dance like Mr Sholmes during one of his deductions, and she realizes that--if she could just draw her inspiration from there, maybe she could get him to open up. ]

I don't know that it's about what I have gathered, but rather, what I've noticed. Because I know you, Kazuma-sama. I know how you carry yourself, and it is probably how I saw so quickly that you were behind the mask as Lord van Zieks' disciple.

[ She pauses for breath, which is slightly shaky, but nothing she can't recover from. ]

From the first time we spoke, about your father, and when I showed you what was in the Karuma... I could already sense you were shutting me out. Like I was too late somehow, though I wouldn't come to understand why until later.

At first, I thought it had something to with your transformation into a noctaere, but there was something else to it. Something else you feared even more than that. A fear I first saw when... you brought up Inspector Gregson with me.