[The problem is that to admonish someone means you have to think they're doing something wrong. Is Alice doing something wrong? By social standards, incredibly but that was the way of the world. Decus seemed to realize in some form yet he had openly threatened her about Alice.

That means it wasn't Reika's business to judge.]

Well, as long as he knows it. There always is a chance that you won't get back what you give, after all.

[A pause.] The general 'you', I mean. It's none of my business.