Kyoko's opinion of him might have just ticked up a notch or two. Space pirate is definitely cool.

But it's more than that. Kyoko finds herself rubbing her Soul Gem ring with a finger absent-mindedly.

"Makes sense to me." Spoken with all the gravitas of someone who does, genuinely, get it.

There isn't anything she has that's like that that can still be separated from her. Her magical girl outfit... Her Soul Gem. Her spear. Things that embody the life she leads, the things that give her the power to live her life the way she wants to. But if any of it could be taken away...

"I'd want it back, too."