Because she turned away, she didn't see the now-familiar flurry of reactions and emotions that managed to get out before the memory loss snapped back with extreme prejudice. Some of the people in there are meant to be dead, he remembered. What had they been saying after that? She'd killed someone. Another Knightmare pilot whose name he didn't recognise.

He shook his head with a grimace of annoyance, fingers curling into his bangs as though that would keep the memories from disappearing. "Ask them to take that from you too," he suggested, only half-joking. "It's working for me."

But that was probably not what she meant by 'clearing her head', so he frowned at her only briefly before his hand dropped from his forehead. "Come on, Kouzuki. You've done undercover missions with the Black Knights, haven't you?"