Maru watches the ground, tapping her toes together to a dull, sheepish rhythm. Yoshiko's right-- it would've been smarter to, and maybe then this whole mess wouldn't have happened, but...

"I guess... I just thought it was gonna happen, you know? It didn't seem that difficult in my head... but then I got more nervous than I expected, and kept waiting for the right opportunity to say it, and when it did turn up-- well..."

A sigh at the recollection; when Maru had wanted to say girlfriend, Yoshiko said little demon, and any chance they had of making it a serious conversation went flying right out the window.

"I mean, fallen angel or not, I know you can't read my mind, Yoshiko-chan. But when you brushed it off as a joke, it kind of hurt... I thought you'd be happy to tell them, too."