[Rideaux looks up at Sayaka there, his expression a little dumbfounded. Like something's clicked, in a sense. He wonders if that's what Sayaka discovered for herself when she made friends here too. Was it the same for her back home, with the job she had?

...Well. It gets him to smile a little bit in the end.]

"Freeing", huh. That's not a bad way to put it.

[Rideaux has had little opportunity in his life to truly "cherish" anything, but...he finds himself agreeing that this should be one of those things.

...ah, right. It's getting late.]

No problem. Happy to be a proper doctor rather than a coroner at any opportunity. [Rideaux...] You too, Maizono.