Hamuko's heart broke for the two of them. For... for Zenkichi, having to see his own daughter dying again, the pain compounded by the AI he cared for having the very same soul as his real one. It broke for Akane, being lied to this whole time, treated like an asset and used to manipulate someone rather than being respected as her own self.

"Horrible--" was all Hamuko got out before tears flowed, and she hastily wiped at them. She was not the one in distress, here. "What that group did - that's horrible, Akane, I am so... so mortified, I'm so sorry..."

Mitsuru couldn't have been with the group still, she-- she wouldn't have let that happen. Right? But then, she had never pictured Ken Amada to be so malevolent and cruel as a tool of Nyx either.

"I'm so sorry for ever misunderstanding what the Kirijo Group was. That's horrible. You don't deserve that."