Sayo's slightly melancholy smile widens slightly when it only takes a few moments for Battler to properly place her face. So he really did know. She figured as much, given that the reunion with Beatrice ended in happy tears instead of hollow cackles, but to be confronted with it again...

It was different when Battler arrived last time. It had been on her terms to give up, to bare her heart to him. Now he had to advantage, so much so that it didn't even feel proper to fish up a chess metaphor to express it.

"Ta-da. It's me." She laughs a little at his comment. "It's..." Sayo pauses, unsure of what to say next. "It's nice to see you again, Battler." Those words are weighted with a suffocating ocean of emotion, but one that's calmed in its fury in contrasting to the roaring of the Pthumerian Sea.

"...all of it, then?" She doesn't need to elaborate on the question. They both know what she's really asking.