[...Okay this can't possibly be Terumi. There's no way he could keep a straight face like this. Right? Is it maybe too much to hope?]

It's a pleasure to meet you, Kazuma. And I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but... well, it's best you find out sooner rather than later.

[Relaxing from her previous guardedness just a bit, she gives him a soft, almost apologetic smile.] The Malnosso are very powerful, capable of bringing people here from different worlds and different times. As far as we've found, there isn't any way out except through them.