[ Decide what she wants, huh? Wouldn't it make things so much easier if she could? Maybe if she'd ever been allowed to have anything back when she'd still been stupid enough to try asking, she'd have a better idea. But she's spent so much of her life giving everyone else the things they want, she doesn't know how to do it for herself anymore.

So, if Oberon says this is something he wants, that makes it easier. So easy that it scares her. It's pathetic to cling so tightly to someone who's only here because they have to be, but if he gives her the slightest excuse to indulge when her heart's in such tatters- ]

... Is that... really okay?

[ Small, meek, apologetic. The frightened little voice that could never come out of Ai of B-Komachi, but that so often finds itself in the mouth of Hoshino Ai instead. ]

I'm no good as a Master. I'm even worse as a person. I know I'm more trouble than I'm worth. S-so... is this... really okay?