[No reply. If this wasn't video and that stunned face was filling the screen, it wouldn't be a stretch to think she'd hung up. For someone like Lightning, someone who values her own family above anything else...to hear something like that might as well have sucker punched her.

Especially given the way he's acting. What little she knows about Sasuke tells her he's not a very good actor and that he's...probably telling the truth. Oh, Etro...]

And killing him alone is your only option? If he managed to take everyone out, he's not going to be easy to take down. You have to know that.

[If it's any consolation, her tone has softened a fair bit. It's not pitying, though. She had enough of that on her own back then, too.]