A part of her had been prepared to be insulted to her face; this was Tsubasa, after all. The one who accused her of being dead as his way of greeting her when they first met. Thus, Jabi was unprepared for this - a seeming declaration of gratitude from such an unlikely source.

Had it come from someone else, she would have doubted their sincerity - but this was Tsubasa and he was someone who had little time for words, much less empty ones. Jabi raised a brow at him, then shook her head. "Perhaps you need to stop seeing her as the little girl she was, and start seeing her as the Makai Priestess she's become," she said, a tad gentler than the tone she often used on him.