[ There's a little grimace on his face behind her back, but while a lot of that was things he'd rather not Nene have to watch, having that outside perspective is helpful, and he did ask her to watching out for things for him.

With the wisteria tree's full branches in the way, it's hard to see anything unless from the ground floor, but there would have been enough movement to see the group that had gone out first to talk to Kazuki, maybe she saw that it was Hanako who drew first blood and got them voided or maybe not, but then everything went dark. The monster fight, the breaking of the ring, the separation of the two parties and everything that they experienced, it was all in that void. Nene, if she'd left to break a mirror, would find herself staring out the window at the group surrounding the gardener, turned from monster back to man but now with his mask off.

And then Hanako and Amami were gone.

...

He puts on a smile, leaning back from the hug just enough so that Nene can see him. ]

Of course I did! It should be alright to leave it alone for now, but when the time comes, you'll lend me a hand, won't you? I'll be counting on your special ability.