Without the absent mannerisms of Akashi, Tatsuki's attention also remained on the other Dragonoid. She found the weight of his stare to be something she had to meet, lest she feel somehow weaker for not addressing it directly. Just the same, she had already come to terms with her understanding of herself and this lad as the pair of adventurer's who'd come to this place together. As such she was becoming more comfortable in this moment, all the same she wasn't exactly the same person she'd been before this point in time, she didn't have her usual reactions. Even as her ears gathered the words of the Chieftain she seemed less than bothered by what he had to say, enough that she didn't immediately reply.
In the meantime, her attention fully returned to Akashi, who had a single nail gliding along the exposed portion of her body, and strangely, the claw which had been over the boy's heart, was soon travelling a similar path along his exposed torso. At the same time steam was rising from the point where her finger aimed to make contact as well. Their natural defenses seemed to cancel each other out, "No, I don't burn..." she stated. "You don't drown," she said as she figured out that her own abilities should have surrounded this lad by virtue of how close he chose to be while she touched him as such. "Unnamed leaders are a problem... but getting a name shouldn't be difficult," she said seeming to find his words unnecessary as the problem he claimed to have didn't seem to have a reachable answer.