Because we hadn't met for more than 10 days already, I decided to ask them how they were doing while putting myself to sit between Sophia and Isabelle.
The onyx-haired girl looked a bit displeased and frowned, but her aloof and indifferent expression returned. She put up a wall between us, trying to push the people around her at a certain distance, and didn't invade her private area.
This behavior was often found in the traumatized players in Horizon Online, and I was quite familiar with it. So I didn't push myself to invade Isabelle's area and only asked her when necessary or when she was brought up on the topic.
They told me about their training and how they had been officially recognized as Paladin Knight Squad, serving under me by Sana a few days ago when I was in Rose Barony.