[She's been told that almost as much as she's been asked his previous question. They seemed to follow one another as natural, to most people, but to Sieglinde, who had been raised on duty and responsibility... it's not easy at all. She can't see how it could be.]

Just because I am here doesn't mean my duty is erased, or my promises broken. I swore to find a cure for the Ultimate Magic, and that is something I will think about every day until it is complete.

[So dedicated to this, in fact, that she had tattooed her theories on a possible cure onto her skin in Oska, that which she had told him vaguely on the network was simply "something important for my world". The very edge of one of the tattoos can actually be seen on the outside of her ankle, where her jumpsuits long pants legs are rolled up.]

If I cannot see it done in my lifetime, my heir will take on the task. And so on, and so forth.

[That was the price she paid for ignorance. For creating SuLIN in the first place.

She may have escaped her village... but until she'd righted what she'd done, she could never feel free.]