[Alice pales. But she looks to X, and while she wants to hesitate, the compulsion gets the better of her.]

I haven't seen my mom in years, and my dad... well, only an alternate version of him, recently. The real one's been gone a long time. I just feel wrong burdening people here with it, though. Ash and Iris were upset enough when I said my parents were divorced. How do you just say, "And also my dad's dead, he was a criminal mastermind and the one who created the Randomizer, among other things like harvesting souls via PC, and it was apparently all to bring me back in the first place?"

[Alice looks up at where X is riding Kanga. For once, she puts away her notes.]

You didn't know your parents much, huh?