It was weird. Adela just blinked at Itachi, a little dumb-founded at the words. It... It was mostly what Obito had told her back in his office, but at the same time it wasn't. He and Sasuke hadn't told her that she was holding herself back.

After a few painfully long seconds she swallowed thickly, nodding and never letting her gaze leave him as she spoke, "Y-yeah. Guess it's stupid to keep thinking about it like this, isn't it."

Things would go wrong, things wouldn't go as planned, so she'd just have to take mistakes as they come, review them, and... Use them to get better. That's what she thought he was telling her. It wasn't saying not to blame herself, it was telling her to use her experience to improve.

Maybe, later, she'd realize that that was what she felt she needed to hear a long time ago.