The smile didn't help. She could step backwards and see where it was supposed to be reassuring, but at the current moment, she wouldn't be able to accept it. Her facial expression didn't change, except maybe to grow more irritated. This wasn't... accepted. If she had been injured before... but no, that wasn't true anymore was it? Things had changed. Rika had changed. And so had Renamon.

But she was so tired of letting people down. Angry that the people she claimed to care about were still getting hurt. Yukari was....

"I'm not strong enough," she said finally. "I need to be protecting people. And...."

She stopped talking and was silent, before abruptly continuing. "One of the ones I should protect was taken last night. I told you this. She gave me... this. And this," she said, pulling up her sleeve to show a shallow cut the length of her upper arm. "And none of it should have happened. The attacks. Her being taken. My inadequacy."

Again she stopped talking. Surprised at what she had said aloud, she simply stared at the floor blankly.