[ Oh my, he's irritated. She doesn't make eye contact, content to "watch" the wrestlers onscreen, more concerned with how Fox is going to wash that olive oil out of his tail, or how she should have taken the initiative to purchase claw covers for him instead of taking oven mitts from the kitchen, than any fascination with fanservice ]

I had fully anticipated that this system is something our unit won't have interest in, but I didn't want my own partner being the last to know what's going on. [ but she won't correct that she was tapped because she's in agreement with everyone, because it's better than admitting she's been working with Intensity and watching her audition idol unitmates ]

The implementation of this system has very little to do with Absinthe's expedition, failed in your perspective or not: There was an expedition subsequent to the one you were on that ended with someone killing themselves in a last ditch effort to request help from Lilith. That is the level of recklessness we're trying to prevent, by establishing with the team what would constitute an emergency and when they would require rescuing.