[ Makoto nods slowly to demonstrate her understanding, but she does her best not to let her worry seep through to her features. She doesn't like the idea of her teammates having trouble and not being there to help, but there's nothing she can do for that now. They can only move forward now. ]

We need to be more careful than ever here, don't we? If we really are traveling to different worlds, there's no telling what we might run up against.

[ The same was true in the Metaverse — there had always been a degree of unpredictability when infiltrating Palaces — but this is a whole other playing field. ]

These other worlds you've been to...what were they like?