Even so, there could have been more to do for them, at least..! Whether to protect them from sight, or to hold them firm, or-!

[It occurs to him what Joker is asking, and he looks up- rather bloodshot and watery eyes blinking.] A-

Wh-where... Joker, I, the man Gongenzaka, am quite uninjured, I assure you... [So he says, even as a vine wipes a bit of tears from the iris-less and scarred eye.]