Rika was, perhaps, looking just a bit scary at the moment. Between the anxiety of meeting her new colleagues and the suppressed rage she was feeling standing right next to a demon, she had slipped into her possession mode without thinking, wiping almost all trace of emotion from her face and causing her to look like a slightly angrier, goth Detection Doll herself. At Kaeru's comment, she caught herself, relaxing her expression, but only a little given the task at hand. Resisting the urge to apologize and introduce herself, she listened quietly to the leader speak, and exhaled in relief. She wasn't going to be fired; in fact, it sounded as if she'd made the best decision she could have possibly made. Also, though the woman who seemed to be her immediate supervisor spoke sternly, she was straightforward and made things easy to understand, which was something Rika appreciated.

	Fifteen Beasts and a single Monster or low-level Devil. Rika couldn't help but think that she could handle this on her own, and was wondering why a whole squad was being sent. Is this why no one was able to come to her rescue when her home was destroyed? —but she would file that thought away for later. Right now, she didn't have the expertise or the guts to criticize the boss, given she almost died in an incident that she also thought she should have been able to handle. Perhaps these things tended to escalate unexpectedly. She also realized in that moment that she didn't know a whole lot about how the DDF handled things. "Emergence Gate" was a new term for her. The Detection Doll was also a thing—an adorable little thing. Her eyes were glued to it as she followed to the vehicle bay, when Natsumi suddenly called out to her.

	She was caught off guard a little. She'd tried to casually slip into the group without saying anything, and was a little surprised that nobody seemed to know who she was. She flashed a little smile, relieved to find herself just being paranoid about any office rumors there might be. [color=orchid]"Uh, yeah. I've fought a few Monsters before,"[/color] she said casually, then immediately regretted it. It sounded like she was bragging, she told herself, though her tone didn't sound that way at all. [color=orchid]"Uh, I mean Beasts. Distracting them is like a specialty for me, so... yeah. Let me handle the small fry,"[/color] she hedged. Rika dressed a bit tough, but she sure didn't act like it. There was also the whole, being a foreigner with only one arm, with a barely-usable hand, thing. Rika wondered if her presence here made the DDF look desperate.