[... The "something new", at least, Hayame thinks she understands. Or... had been equipped with a telling of events that makes her potentially able to understand. The tale of... of dying to become that god-like, spiritual figure of "Calamity"? To be paired with "Providence"? No, not a tale, no matter how much it sounded like that to her ears.

To Akua it was her life. A story, and yet not a story.]

I cannot pretend... that I understand.

[As much as she admired certain traits that the other woman possessed... her capacity for actions she'd dub villainy was not necessarily one of them, nor was her ability to then "forgive" those acts in others. But... (If that person were to disappear from Kenos tomorrow... would she cling to something he had owned?)]

But if it brings you some sort of... comfort...

[Was that the word?]

Then I am honored to put it back into your hands.