[ Hiroto comes with Kido, who is shouting at everybody else to gather as they come by them, and eventually the group comes back together in the middle of the forest. The trees are splattered with black gunk, some of the leaves and patches of grass burning low, and Hiroto looks mildly distressed seeing the town and its nature like this.

But he puts on a brave face as he comes and takes the Kotengu from where he'd been shrunk down to the form of a little black crow. In between his hands, Hiroto creates a little cage of light, the arrow through the bird's chest dissolving and falling away as his injuries heal too, but as much as he caws and flaps his wings, he can't escape from the cage. ]

Thank you, [ Hiroto says, bowing at the waist to each person here] Thank you so much for stopping him. He- oh.

[ He pauses, listening to crow caw, looking surprised for a moment, and then his brows pinch together and he quickly looks away. ]

Oh... um... He says, um. F- fuck you. [ His voice dips and he immediately looks apologetic, before standing up a little taller and raising his voice again. ] But we can come to a compromise, I know we can! So nothing like this will happen again!