[She looks at her right shoulder, just where he's pointing at. That she would get injured wasn't unthinkable, but it could be possible if she weren't careful enough. That's a truth, and that's not something that she would shy away from.

Injuries sucked, but one had to live with them. But in this case, her other self had somehow gotten injured. She didn't know the -- oh.

Circumstances. It all boils down to that, doesn't it? One action taken, one action not taken. She could have done something differently and she would have gotten injured just like this Souji's.]

I don't know what circumstances led your version of me to have an injury here, but I might have taken a different step somewhere along the line to allow me to stay unscathed.

Your Kondou is a man, yes? Difficult as it is for me to believe, but if there is a slight difference such as being a man or a woman, there might have been some small differences as to how we led our lives.

[But apparently not enough changes to make them completely different. She, and her male counterpart, were leaders of the Shinsengumi. She, and her male counterpart, had apparently done much of the same, and was even leader of the Shieikan when Souji first arrived.]

I wonder what happened that made my other self get injured...

[She blurted this last part out in idle thought.]