Xikkuyo let out a breathless giggle, beaming and bouncing in place--a nearly perfect facsimile of excitement and delight. "It worked!" It wasn't quite a lie, perhaps--she hadn't been certain that she'd be able to manage it at all, without Konohana Sakuya doing it for her..... but it certainly was quite diplomatically dodging the question, while offering up enough implications that Axel could draw his own conclusions, wrong though they probably would be.

Either way, it was a relief to see that he hadn't been hurt by the attack; she'd been..... well, maybe not worried, but concerned, even if Axel had seemed entirely at ease. She opened her free hand, now curled into a fist; the panel was gone, melted away as though it never had existed at all. What had happened to it? Would she need a new one? Xikkuyo looked back up at Axel, still smiling. The others probably wouldn't be that easy..... "What now?"

Almost as an afterthought, she fluttered her fan to help blow the smoke away; that was what it was made for, right?