[The why's of the hideout will come back around later—Tifa hasn't forgotten about that—but right now, she agrees with Akechi that their first priority here is to find out as much about this place as possible, if this is to be their new home, however temporary or permanent. However, it does take her a moment to put together what they're telling her, about cognitions and some collective unconscious having an effect in some way, but in the end, she shakes her head again.

Things were much easier when it was just a cute little café and bar hybrid, but she isn't going to give up on these two just because it's a little difficult to wrap her head around and fully understand.]

This place doesn't operate by any rules.

[Her hand idly wraps around her wrist, where her materias shimmer in the light. She's tested them, and to no one's surprise, they were useless. To her, that isn't normal.

At any rate...]

If you two are gonna be going around gathering info, then you need to quit being so cagey.