[When he lets her take his hand, she does relax - it's a minute amount of relaxation, but it's relaxation nonetheless. She can't thank him enough for not leaving her to die here alone. As terrifying as it is to experience from her side, it must also be terrifying to watch.

She isn't so lost in the poison's throes that she can't think clearly enough to realize that.

There is something else she is thinking clearly enough to know she must speak of - what worries her is whether or not she has the strength to speak of it without making how much the poison is hurting any more obvious than it already is. Though he tells her not to strain herself, she shifts so that she can use her free arm to push herself up into a sitting position.]

Just— to be safe...

[Just on the off-chance that Kimigiku is too late, that she succumbs to this poison before she can return to Yase - ]

I should tell you what I know of... your sister.

[Of her whereabouts, and of who exactly Yukimura Kodo is and where he lives and what he's doing. So that even if, for some reason, the man does move away and take Chizuru with him, Kaoru will have something to go on to track them down.]

...I promised that... I would bring you to her. [But such a promise may not be able to be kept.] I must— If I can—... you must see her again, someday...