Oh, Alice... [This hurt to watch. Something was eating her from the inside out, and Alice was... not at all herself. But she still stubbornly clung to the one thing she knew she could do, and now it was being used against her. Rikka could admit she had no idea what was going on, but whatever it was, it was bad, and it needed a solution fast. It wasn't just a crisis of personality or anything - if that were the case, Alice would have opened up to Rikka, with their relationship as it was. No, this was something entirely different.

Reaching out gently and pulling the girl to her, she sighed.] Okay. I'll be careful. I don't want you to get blood on your hands for me, all right? And if I have to sit on the beach every day to make sure that happens, I will. Whatever it takes... I don't want anything to tear us apart. If nothing else calls you away, though, I'd like it if we could spend some time down on the island. With Mana, or just us. Whichever works out. We can just relax and take it easy, and try not to think about all this. Does that sound good?