[He's pleased, in some way, when Mondo gets it; it's not something he'd thought to really put into some sort of coherent explanation simply because he hadn't needed one himself. But then Mondo puts everything together and Ishimaru nods.]

Exactly - that's why I want her to have one.

[She gets one because of course she does. :|

Either way, he falls quiet for a moment longer before he speaks again; he hasn't minded the silence lately, but it feels...weird with Mondo.]

...has everything been okay? Lately, I mean.

[...]

...with...you. Have you...been okay.