Indeed. If they sought merely our lives, they needed but overlook us. This is not to say that we should believe in them blindly, but at the very least, they have earned some measure of goodwill.

[Hm. Speaking of good will... Alice is getting an odd feeling from Semiramis. Not threatening, exactly, but rather... Someone she should not get on the bad side of.

She's spent so much of her life around those wielding incomparable power that she's learned to recognize the way someone carries themself when you don't want to make an enemy of them.]

... My name is Alice Kozakura. What of yourself?