[Yukina feels almost like she might cry again, and though the tentacles were sort of unnerving at the start of all this... they're comforting, now. She hugs him tightly, because they can all see that this is soon going to be coming to an end.]

I never knew my father. [She doesn't know if he even really counts as her father; she's the spitting image of her mother, which means she was born a full-blooded Koorime. But she has a brother, which means her mother took up with a man.] ...but I think I would have liked it if he was like you, Craftly-san.

[She gives him another firm hug.]

...we won't be afraid. Thank you for the strength you've lent us.