Upon hearing the question, Artie tightened her hold on Larkin's hand. After recalling those tips that the System had told her, she was growing more and more careful of her actions. It was also because the scoring was solely dependent on Larkin's thoughts of her. Her stunts from earlier weren't even taken into consideration as Larkin thought little of it as measures of Artie's worthiness of his trust.
Now that she was presented with such a question again, her precious fifty percent might be reduced if she didn't answer this question as gracefully and naturally as possible. Fifty percent was too big already, and she had yet to finish her first task after spending a few days in the place already. It seemed inefficient.
That was why she had to make sure that he could trust her… by trusting him first.
"...I trust you." Artie smiled at him, her eyes curling like crescent moons as well. "But you can't stop a wife from worrying, can you?"
