[Concern washes over his features when she shivers in his arms. Both of them are completely soaked from their underwater swim, but Tartaglia can't help but scoop her up completely in his arms now, holding her close to give her some semblance of warmth. The warm, Sumeru sun helps, but the humidity really doesn't, meaning the two of them are going to be wet for a while unless they get somewhere to dry off.

He loathes the idea of returning to the hotel, but that's the best and quickest place for the moment, so he begins to head back to the city, but he's going in the back way- so that they aren't detected.]

You think so? Yoimiya, I'll admit I know nothing about them other than what you've told me...what kind of creatures are they?

[The Aranara remains a complete mystery to him, and probably Dottore too...which is why the man wants to get his hands on one so badly.]

And do you really think they can help?