Good. She's coming, then, and that's the most important part. He should have looked askance at the cat under her arm, but he has since been informed about Pepita's alternate state okay.

Now that he knows he doesn't have to beg her to come along, Peter calms down a bit. For all he's a dumbass, he's clearly been in a crisis before. There's a telltale sense of forward momentum, just figuring out the next step and then going on from there. One step at a time. "He's trying to help me and Orihime," he says with another wince of guilt. "We were going to trap the thing together - I guess he found out." Which he can't really fault him for. Dude's looking out for his dumbass kids.

"Ben beat it with this rune weapon. It looked like a cannon - I took down the runes. They're kind of anti-undead, I think?" He gets out his notebook as they walk, showing her what he's researched.