It seemed for a moment at least that Miki had succeeded in using the abilities she'd wanted to use before but hadn't gotten an opportunity to showcase. Moreover there was a very excited utterance from Karna who apparently was quite taken with the outcome of her skills usage. This was a strange reaction to Miki who hadn't expected to get anything close to praise from someone like him. She managed to seem somewhat sheepish given she wasn't expecting such an appraisal. "Ano... that's a little embarrassing. You should calm down a bit, yeah?" she muttered managing to seem a bit pleased with herself nonetheless. "Sugoi!" this was the only response from Hikari who liked the amount of skill being shown by Miki though they hadn't formally been introduced yet. "Kou-nii, the other girl in your party is really strong too. Is she a Knight like you? Did you help her out?" she asked wondering about the sorts of developments she could expect being attached to Kou.
Beyond this, Madoka was watching this entire situation unfold in a manner she hadn't expected, the attention she'd tried to get from Kou was subverted and while she sulked she watched as Miki managed a feat that she didn't think herself capable of, even at a much higher level. "I thought you were just a warrior, Miki-san?" she questioned wondering where she'd gone wrong in her skill set. "Iia, I am a rogue," she said, and though there was a bit more of an explanation than that, there currently wasn't time for it. The King was apparently very unhappy about the death of his Kingdom's Knights, and as he began to fume, corrosive gas seemed to leak from his person. Miki got a whiff of this much like her earlier musing as a darkening circle around her vision which let her know what sort of danger the King would be to all present. Strangely, Madoka just seemed to be confused by the whole thing. "Father, you can't be that upset when you're the reason they attacked. Calm down, please." Madoka tried reasoning with the man but Miki could see it would be fruitless. Besides that, Karna had now stepped up again and was speaking to her directly. He made the claim that he wasn't stretched enough for all of this, and would thus hand over the kill of the King to her as well. He even decided to differ to her in case she wanted to give Kou or Hikari a chance to do some damage instead, his choice of reference though, would get a properly flustered response out of Miki. "B-b-b-boyfriend?!" she managed to seem utterly confused by the assumption. "No, really isn't like that... I mean, if he wants to fight it's fine, but you can't just say stuff like that. And I don't care about being a Knight either it wasn't in my original plans for this adventure," she said hurriedly, seemingly to be properly embarrassed her face fully reddening and her heartbeat getting just a little faster. If honesty were on the table, it should be obvious to all that she had a certain fondness for Kou which could relate to something like being his significant other, but there was no such obvious placement the other way, and as such the situation was with them as partners in their endeavors and adventures nothing more.