Hitomi listened closely to the conversation going on between the two.  It was normally her duty in the interaction between her master and a potential client to gauge how the other person was reacting and make subtle clues to Bontenmaru, but this was rather... foreign to her.  She was still fairly quiet, but not feeling anything from the woman really threw off their practiced game.<br/><br/>Upon hearing Bontenmaru asking her a question directly, she knew that he was looking for a vague clue of what she thought of the situation, but she really had nothing more than the state of urgent uncertainty to add to the situation.  "Well... Just what is your relation to this Aimi?  I may be able to recall something about meeting a beautiful young woman traveling in this general area fairly recently... but I'm not certain that I want to divulge my information quite so freely if I don't know what that information will be used for.  Knowledge is power after all, and I'm not sure that I want to empower people who would harm such a beautiful creature without a very good reason."  She said, looking at the seemingly mindless woman with a great deal of skepticism.<br/><br/>"And on a different, but not unrelated note... how is it that you can not tell me for certain if she was beautiful?  Surely someone as cute as you must be able to gauge how attractive a woman is, even if you wouldn't normally act on it.  Just a clue, when in doubt, just compare herself to yourself with the knowledge that you are, at the absolute least a 9!"