It couldn't have been more than a minute before they found Faulklin again, meeting him halfway since, just as Komeko had said, he'd come to find them himself anyway. Actually, Komeko was sort of surprised that he'd taken that long.
"If you're done apologizing to her or whatever, let's go," he said, offering Mari an unfriendly glare. "We've wasted enough time."
"Alright, though...she decided to come with us after all." Komeko offered up, already prepared for his protests.
"And I said I don't want her around." Faulklin retorted.
"Just give it a chance," Komeko insisted. "It just means we'll have another pair of eyes to keep watch."
"Yeah, and another mouth to feed, and possibly a bumbling idiot that'll get us killed or worse." Faulklin scoffed.
Komeko seemed to ponder her response for a moment before offering up, "If Nii-san were here, he'd be all for helping and letting her join us, and he wouldn't be happy about how inhospitable you're being. You know that."
The teen growled low in his throat and his brow twitched visibly in irritation before he turned his head away with a scoff. "Fine, do what you want, but what I said before still stands. She slows us down or turns on us, whether it be me or the infected, she's as good as dead. That's a promise."