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"You know, I've heard that phrase used an awful lot and I'm starting to get angry with it," Tsui said with a spat, openly rolling her eyes when he used the dirty 'i' word. At least he didn't use the 'a' word, as that would have set her off entirely. She knew he was right, too, but that didn't make her anger any less potent. "You know how weird it already is that we're born here on Earth but we're called the invaders? And as fun as it would be to just go back home, I can't... not without having to spend an awful lot of time gardening. My home, my OLD home, is pretty uninhabitable, but I doubt you care."

At least her home world had SOME inkling of life, if possible astral projected tigers could be considered 'life', otherwise it was nothing but an overgrown jungle. Not destroyed, thankfully, but certainly neglected and abandoned... for a reason. Strange how talking to Ilmenite suddenly made her homesick, and at least it was something to look forward to.

"Maybe, but I haven't run into a single one that sought to harm them either. So either you're living in the past and can't let things go, or we have a mysterious organization working in the shadows trying to pit us against each other. Or you're drunk." Tsui scoffed at the very notion of senshi and knights on her side attacking civilians. Attacking the Negaverse and Dark Mirror Court, absolutely possible, but she refused to believe that members of her own court, as disorganized and hopeless as they may appear at times, would ever resort to that. That alone would have been the final straw and the open invitation she was given was so very, very tempting. She even reeled back her hand to strike him, but she couldn't. Not just because of his words and the surprisingly clarity they brought despite coming from a drunk man, but because she knew it wouldn't have helped. It would have made matters worse, wouldn't it?

It reminded her too much of her days as a Super, running around and pushing fights and violence onto others... and she didn't want to think about it. As much as it damaged her pride not to knock this guy out, she had to walk away. She hated it, and she felt like a coward, but she knew she was doing the right thing when she dropped the fist and instead, gave a waving motion as if to try and get rid of some bad air. "No, you're offending me with that terrible smell of alcohol and smoke... but that's no excuse to strike you. Just... don't go around hurting people, because when you do, I'll be more than happy to break that jaw of yours!"

It felt strange to walk away, but it had to be right. It had to be what was best... if they ever planned on making peace with their enemy. Peace that she still believed to be impossible, but was willing to give it some hope, if not got herself than for others.

She may have had her back turned and was walking away, but that didn't make her immune to his little comment, and she openly seethed at the notion of being called 'sugar'. She wasn't his sugar and she had half a mind to demonstrate this fact to him with a solid fist to his nose. But by the time she turned around, he was making his exit, and all she could think to retaliate with was an annoyed sigh as she stormed off. "Go get hit by a bus..."

Tsui wasn't leaving this encounter in high spirits either, and there wasn't a single part of her that didn't feel some amount of shame or disgust with herself for allowing him to just walk away without a fight. She trusted in the Jovians' way and she suspected that if any of them were there that they'd be praising her for her patience and capacity for mercy to the enemy, especially one that just seemed content on having a good time with alcohol and getting his nicotine kick. But it just felt wrong to walk away from a fight, which meant that she still had a long ways to go before she was ready for peace.

"You're getting soft, Tsui... pretty soon no one's going to take you seriously." She sighed, shaking her head and heading down to familiar hunting grounds, hoping to find a youma to release this pent up aggression within her. That was something that the Negaverse general wasn't wrong about... which didn't necessarily settle well within Tsui either. She was a warrior, and what else could a warrior do but fight?