He blinked. "One on one, and you drove him off? I'm... genuinely impressed, actually." What had happened, there. Something would've had to have gone dramatically differently, if Ann had had an encounter with an Akechi- while having Hecate- and won, awakening or no. Also, She had Célestine, now. And his opposite number hadn't seen a second or third awakening. Interesting.

"There's a story there, definitely, it feels like. What do you say? You tell me yours and I tell you mine?"