[Matoba takes his box of cookies with him, and gestures towards Soma for them to walk and eat together. Despite all the chaos that had occurred a few days ago, it was a lovely spring day. No sense in wasting it.]

Gladly, [Matoba hums, taking a bite into a jam cookie.] It's been some time since I had proper French cuisine. Too often, western cooking is a bit heavy for my liking, but it's good to indulge once in a while, don't you think?

[He nibbles away at his cookie as Soma brings up the recent happenings, glancing towards him as he speaks and then forward again as they walk. The Enma had been making sweeps of Sutoku territory for about a week now... Matoba knew that some of the Lost Souls at the meeting had spoken of attempting to hide some of the kappa away. He wonders how that went.] You're only working under orders, after all. ["Only". Sure.] It's an unfortunate result that we all saw coming. Well, they were foolish enough to get mixed up in something quite underhanded, it seems, but it's a shame the smallfry who don't have any use are getting caught up in it, too.

[As if on cue, he tilts his head towards Soma, humming.] "Interesting", huh? About the machine or the attack?