[Yes, that's totally going to make this easier definitely.]

Yes, well, nobody ever said improvement was a straight line. Thinking like that is how you never leave square one.

[There's a smile in return, small and wry. This isn't how he would have expected things to go, meeting one of the souls trapped in the Ring again.

But...it seems natural. It's not as odd as it could be. Izunia has always been there, after all, even if he couldn't be reached. They already know each other as well as they could have.]

I'm glad for that much.