[Nia waves off the question to keep her answer from sounding as serious as it absolutely and depressingly is.]

I'm a royal pain in the arse and he's kind of blunt, I wouldn't be on good terms with me either if I were him. Guy's already got one of those... y'know. ['Soulless' shinki sounds like such a horrible terms.] Doesn't really need me, so there's a lot of space there.