So what then..?

[The vehemence is gone from her voice, now, replaced with exhaustion. She is too worn down to pull her hand away from Kaoru's, but maybe she wouldn't do so anyway - her fingers twitch and her hand shifts as if to take his, but she doesn't have the energy to do that, either.]

Do we— Do we just do as we were before...? Continuing to live out our lives like this, biding our time...

[If they're being monitored in this world - because of course they are, but maybe they're not being monitored too closely because they've been like this for years and years now, maybe they're no longer a priority - do they have to go back to what they were doing before this visit? Kaoru living out his days in Edo, helping Kodo with the ochimizu, and Chizuru back in Tosa—]

I don't want to go back to that horrible clan, but if I don't they'll know something's changed—

["They" being the producers.]

And I don't, I don't want you involved with the ochimizu here...! What was the old man thinking? How could he involve you with that...?! You were supposed to be safer!

[...yeeeeah, whoops, she forgot she'd been trying to keep her snooping a secret.]