[Kanaya opens her mouth, shuts it, opens it more reluctantly, and finally refuses to meet Chizuru's gaze.]

May Chang is thirteen years old now, not that ten year old they showed you in the compact.

[She hates this part. She doesn't like to let herself believe these things, even three years later, that this game of life and death is founded on lies.]

There's much more to life than meets the eye, than returning to Okita-san's side or absconding with your sibling or protecting your race. Why else would a mere eight out of thirty people defeating the mastermind pass for inspirational?