[Yes, Fugo, friendship does exist .... but Maya would be the same if it were the other way around, so she couldn't judge him for that anyway]

.... They might have been forced to work here, in the first place. I'd be pretty mad, too.

[And she does sound sympathetic, for all the good it'd do them. Not much.]

Okay, just... repeat after me.

[Still linked to his arm, she raises her other hand and snakes her fingers together in a praying pose, hoping he'll follow. Then, she starts to recite a prayer in Japanese, sentence by sentence, slow enough that he can repeat it, and I'm not googling one okok]