"I don't think I'd like being unable to affect the world. Sounds really miserable..."

"It might not be too bad if I could still learn stuff and get more powerful. Though the thing I'd be trying to do with that power is change the world more, so."

"I think I mostly agree with Sayuri on this."

"I wouldn't kill myself in that circumstance, and I would try to break out... But I'd rather just avoid either death or - helplessness."

"Fair enough."

"...Let's talk about something else."

"Well, do we want to get dinner out again, or eat at my place?"

"Eating in might be nice."

"Cheaper, too."

"I'm not making you guys buy my groceries, no." She ruffles Sayuri's hair. 

"Sounds good to me."

Back to Shinrei-sensei's place, then?

Back to her place. 

She starts cooking once they're all settled - it'll be a little bit, so there's time to chat or explore the apartment. 

"...What's with the bandages?" Elaise asks Sayuri. "If it's all right to ask."

She shrugs. "It's okay to ask, yeah." And she bites her lip, then - "My eyes hurt a lot when they're not sealed like this, and using or being around chakra makes it a lot worse, especially in the village."

"That sounds... hard to work around."

"Yeah. Pretty much just have to act like I'm blind."

"That sucks."

She nods, a bit tightly. "I'm used to it, though. It's been like this most of my life."

"Is that why you stick with Shinrei-sensei?"

"Only kind of? I mean, she raised me starting when I was definitely too tiny to live in the dorms, and there's been no reason for me to move out so far. I can navigate and cook and stuff on my own, and I'm learning a technique for sensing the ink in books so I don't have to rely on someone reading to me or a book being available in braille."

"Well... might make people underestimate you."

"Hopefully."

Shrug.

"Hopefully it doesn't make anyone assume you're hiding a doujutsu or something."