I was... I was expecting you to ask that. If you didn't I would have asked.

[Because it's become rote now, asking old friends what's the last thing they remember, so he knows where everyone stands when it comes to their timelines.

But how should he say that he'd seen her die?]

Academia in the year 500AF. I remember you and Noel arriving from wherever you'd fought Caius at. [Would that be enough, he wonders...?]