[ I could definitely beat you, Alice says, and it's like a punch straight to any sense of selfconfidence that Chizuru may have.

(Read: not all that much to begin with.)

And yet she just accepts it all the same, because she figures it's most likely true. Most people could beat her, if not just all people in general.. ]

I was planning on mostly staying inside at night. [ A sentiment that seems pretty normal to her, but then again, it's not like it was strange for people to wander around at night even back home in Kyoto.. ] It's better to be safe than sorry, right? No one should get hurt unnecessarily, if it can be helped at all.