@demure-defiance continued from this ask: 

He'd look ever so faintly hurt, for a moment... But then he'd grin, completely forgetting how very much demonic that could look.

"Really, Detective? I'd like to think I'm a better person to work with than just 'non-agonizing'. But, I suppose I have to take what I can get."

The facade of arrogant demonhood fell as fast as his expression did after he said it. A joke that hadn't landed, in his own head- thus, instead, blunt honesty.

"...That was too close. We got lucky, there- gave a lot of people a chance at getting some semblance of a life back, and a lot more that will have the worst of it being trauma and therapy. It's not them going back to whatever they had, quite. But it's better than their alternatives."

“Extremely funny, Reo Takahashi. You know how I am fine with your company for the mutual trust of not kicking the bucket during the rogue missions like this and when I ask your help, not on how you are only ‘non-agonizing’. You’re one of the most useful work associates I have had in a long while and it shows in the speed this task is done.” She knew how he was most likely kidding, but she was as bad as ever in reading the intent between the lines in that moment. While she did get some seconds later how he was only kidding, she’d already been the stoic Shirogane heiress most knew her as. 

She sighed and mentioned how instances like this were why she’d want to have other saving graces than her speed and senses in knowing where the god-damned demons were. “I’d like to be known as other than the heiress who has a stroke of luck - demons have found a way to insult that as well. I don’t know if they actually have spouted that slander in your presence. The worst they will have is probably three months of nightmares and then asking their nearest doctor for a professional to deal with that. Trust me, I have seen several people go through the same procedure and all stages of grief in a varying order.” 

Then again, at least the worst had been a traumatic afternoon and a showcase how Naoto was able to curse a demon with Hama and mask it as her throwing a hand grenade at it. At least two of the almost dead victims seemed to believe it...