We'll be fine. [ She says it quietly, and then again, with more vigour: ] We'll be fine! We're here together, after all, and if we can just think of it as a video game instead of something that's really, actually real … [ It's probably still going to suck, and something in Aoko's tone suggests that she knows it. ]

And then, when we're done, we can give her a good lecture about not kidnapping people to be her guinea pigs. [ She suspects that they're not going to be the only ones getting in on the yelling action, either. Good. She wants to like Iota, wants to help her and understand her, but that doesn't mean she's going to take this laying down! ]