The doctor feels an unusual tug in his heart as he regards her and her body language after she struck upon that egg. He remains quiet, reaching for his soda and taking a quick sip of it but never allowing his eyes to leave her.

Maybe in some universes, in that car fire, I'm not the one that makes it out of there and he does instead.

"Ah...the incident," Maruki recalled from the first day when Hamuko admitted about her family's death before Thanatos and now the mention of it again. Her brother...the thought of it made his expression become sombre.

"That's only natural after all," he nods- letting her stay with her thoughts but offering ripples of direction. "Were you two close? Back in your world?"