[Then...she nods.] ...Tsukikage and I, we both found weird codes on the network when it got attacked... ...Tsukikage figured them out, and they both went to secret files...

...and... ...I think they came from Elias' dad, [she says quietly, the lights in her hair and wings dull.] ...and...he talked about being sorry-but then he didn't care about being sorry anymore. He just said, 'it doesn't matter-you're still useful, so that's all that matters', [the girl paraphrases, choking.] And...

[With a slight hiccup, she stops-if at least to regain her words and thoughts enough to string them together again.]

...when I met my 'mom', at home...the lady who said she was going to be my 'mom'...it was supposed to be so that I could do things for her. ...she said, 'you're going to be our ultimate trump card'. ...being able to do things, and be useful, was important...

...I still thought it was important, here... ...and I used to ask Elias a lot, 'how do I be useful'...and...

[And the lines are beginning to cross on their point, as she looks to Marco now.] D...do you think he thought... ...Did I make him feel like he was as bad as his dad, and as bad as my mom..?