[color=6ecff6]“I handle stressful situations just [i]fine[/i], thank you very much!”[/color] Reiko whispered harshly, doing little to support her point as she very much lost her cool. Despite current appearances however, under normal circumstances she wouldn’t have been wrong; Reiko was quite good at handling a variety of difficult and stressful situations. Balancing exams in a number of advanced placement classes with a social life was stressful, trying to break through a firewall without alerting the security Digimon just around the corner was stressful, trying to maintain the carefully constructed and delicate balance of lies that had become your existence was [i]stressful[/i]. And yet she managed to navigate all of it well enough.

Manaka was just managing to fray even Reiko’s nerves.

[color=6ecff6]“Maybe if you had given us an objective for this test we’d be doing a little better at it. All you did was drop us in here and tell us to get around the threat, so I’m going around the threat by [i]leaving[/i] as soon as I can.”[/color] And as soon as she was done with that she would be leaving Jormungundr and its annoying leader behind as well. The one condition she had had was that she would leave as soon as things got too dangerous and the very first thing Manaka did was throw them to the wolves. Surprisingly, Reiko didn’t appreciate that. [color=6ecff6]“And what list are you talking about? If you forgot to tell us what we were supposed to do before sending us in here [i]I am going to lose it[/i]!”[/color]