[There was no one else who'd been willing to try to save Sakura. It's worse for Sakura, having to go through something like this. She's only a child.]

I don't mind.

[Kariya regards her trustingly. She's a doctor, after all. It should be fine.]

I'm only supposed to live a few more weeks. [She feels strange, detached, as she says it.] Maybe longer, here, because there's no war. I need more prana to fight, but the Crest Worms won't stop, no matter what.

[Not once they've started. People can live for years with the worms, but only if they don't awaken. They haven't been dormant since she's taken them on, not with the War to worry about. She doesn't bother explaining Berserker and the Grail War; that's too complicated.]