His eyes widen, and he looks away. Her goal sounds so much like the pact that he and Phil made. Firo couldn't be sad to have him safe out of the Arena, but there was an empty feeling to know that he was down an ally in the only thing he wanted to get out of these competitions.

Another team-up didn't sound bad at all. And, besides, this lady sounded like she needed someone looking after her, too, so he couldn't give her too hard a time, right?

"You can help people plenty a' times if you stick around. Don't beat yourself up just because you didn't go and get yourself murdered."

"So... fine. We'll help each other, and then we'll find somebody else we can both help."