<… > Iris clearly didn't consider the fact that Ayame could also be invited to the call, but I'd included her since the very beginning. She just elected to remain silent, patiently waiting for her rival to make a blunder before pouncing like a ravenous lioness. <Yes, you are.> Iris was perhaps the single most stubborn woman I've ever met; her three-year-old self decided she would rather endlessly suffer than give in to her evil father's whims, so I wasn't shocked to see her doubling down on her stance instead of making concessions.
<Would you look at that? I have a wildly different memory of the events… In which you, like an instinctual beast placed under pressure, decided to lunge enemy and let yourself be impaled just so we can end battle swifter, fearing reinforcements could arrive before win. Even admitted it.>
<I was injured and thus not in the right state of mind when I said that.>