"Not everything will go according to as you want it. Sometimes it can go horribly wrong. What's important is that you're still breathing and going to stand to go after it again. My own strength wouldn't mean much if I had not the will to stand against odds stacked against me."

Stand up no matter what and all that. So long as they can keep fighting then they haven't lost a single thing. His master stomping around got him to chuckle and smile. That sort of energy was super infectious! They're always going to get bigger though, Ritsuka! Demon pillars, giant-ass trees that are totally not demon pillars....

He also shared her general lack of concern for whatever was ahead for them. Even less so given they already knew what their general goal was supposed to be. Get to the mountain, find the dragon, beat the crap out of it, go home.

Easy.

"Could always try to lure it out of its hole. But we could always find a way to use the tight corridors to our advantage."