...You did not have to use the red, Kimihiro. I believe you.

[She squeezes his hand, gently.]

...I am...relieved, but - for a moment, it...was enough to shake even my belief in myself.

Please...don't do it again. I...don't want to feel that pain again.

[She lowers her head, letting her hair curtain her face from view.

She could take so much pain, both mental and physically.

Yet, with her beginning to trust again...

In that moment, she was the most vulnerable she had ever been.]