Close to me... Even I cannot deny a claim like that.

[Even if he's only starting to realise the depth of that himself. What is the saying...? "You don't know what you've got until it's gone"? Yukimura had figured that out the hard way.]

Kunoichi, thank you. I do not know what I would do without you by my side.

[After all, she was the one that had saved him in the first place. She was always helping him out of tough spots.]

I suppose we had best go and prepare ourselves for battle, then.