[ Yeah, he's right on that much-- she's never one to give in easily, or let someone else control her. It's more just that the loss of Battler is still so fresh it makes her more emotional at the moment.

She's quiet after he finishes talking though, and she does make eye contact for a while, just frowning back at his cold look, but then she finally averts her gaze before she speaks on. ]

So what? Then I'm just supposed to live on like this? Even if they take everything from me, I have to just put on my usual attitude and pretend I don't even care to start with. What kind of life is that? [ Isn't that what she had told those witches as well? If it wasn't for the people she had here, she might as well return to being dead back home. ] Who would want to live like that to begin with?