"Why would I hurt her?" He still has that shuttered look; he sees Risei as through a window of pieced glass, tinted snow-blue and blood-red. "She has no intention of calling Executors down on Fuyuki. She had nothing to do with the bloodbath on the train." SORRY YOU MISSED THE PARTY, PRIEST, those bloody letters had said; those passengers had died for him, had they not?