There was a point right after all her comrades died, after she realized she and Hyoubu can only be enemies now, when Fujiko thought there was no way her heart could be hurt any more.

If he had finished that sentence she might just have lashed out in return. Age has tempered it, but Fujiko is a stubborn and short-tempered woman by nature and that was hard to shake off completely.

When he doesn't though and just looks away, Fujiko just feels a dull ache in her heart.

"Shirogane..." She leans over, putting her hands on his chair, both of them beside his head. "I've said it once and I'll say it however many times I need to: I'm not playing around."