No...perhaps. But, the walls...there were various other faces we recognized. You could've, at that point - but I was trying to get ahead, to resist against that feeling. That was in my head.

I had forgotten why...we needed to move forward. For a while.

[ Blade pauses again, and then gazing off into the distance, before looking back at her. ]

That's when the flesh-like foundations tried to stop me when I rushed ahead. It came out from the ground, but I pushed past it. [ He knows he can be stubborn, but it's in that moment he realized he could still be pretty persistent. ] At the same time, the seed was sending out pulses, that made us all question if we should keep going. Always...some form of mental attack.

Then, Mizuki was temporarily under some thrall, and I had to deal with her. While I was occupied with her, Anise and Metis went to the seed.

...As for the eye, I did not get the chance.