He didn't have to. "Were you injured when you fought the monster last night?" Hokuto pointed out. Subaru was powerful, but home and here were two different matters. While he'd retained a lot of, maybe even most of, what he usually had, the monsters here were also very little like the ones he was used to facing. He knew how to prepare himself, but he still insisted on going alone, and that worried her.

Of course, she would have been worried anyway... this in spite of the fact that she didn't want him to worry about her. She was the big sister, it was different!