"Okay, I will get to it in a minute, Nitoh, you're not the only one who was helping out," Haruto hisses back, before Nitoh is gone. He looks back at Oriko, hand around the bag of doughnuts tightening with a crinkle of the paper.

"If you have the power to help, you should, right?" he asks, "if you can, anyway. Were you--were you here, when it happened?"