"Little sister....?" Rather than the fact they were supposed to be cousins, it was Lion's more immediate family that stuck out in Battler's mind. Krauss, Natsuhi, and Jessica. it was strange to be hearing, something that definitely hadn't happened for him, but...

"Now that I think about it, there was a story like that, wasn't there?" he thought aloud. "A baby that got thrown over a cliff nineteen years ago. Could that... be you?"

Or a version of, he should probably say. After all, Lion was perfectly fine.