The awkwardness of the gesture was noted, but Ayumu took it in the sense that it was meant - it appeared that this 'Phoenix' was polite enough, and seemed to be genuinely friendly. Despite the fact that he'd somehow annoyed the white-haired man enough to want to throw paper projectiles at him, of course, but sometimes nice people just attracted enemies.

She smiled at him and shook her head a little to indicate that she realized the reason for the apology but didn't feel it was necessary, and just moved on. "Oh, it'll be fine, I'm sure. It's hardly injured at all." It was the truth, after all, even if she did say it in a 'I'm trying to be brave' sort of tone. "A...friend and I ran into a little trouble last night."