Ishikori Katzushita has not shied away from a camera since falling to Aalhya for the inaugural DRC Women’s Championship at Reckoning #1 — and she was not shying away from this one either, still smiling the same smile she wrestles with.

“She said she has nothing to say to me,” Katzushita said, referencing Aalhya’s cold post-match comments. “Fine. I don’t need her respect either. I never wrestled for it. I wrestled for that title, and I’ll wrestle for it again.”

It is Katzushita’s first public word since the loss, and the first sign she considers the story unfinished — a continuation of the same measured, unbothered tone that defined her half of the build to Reckoning #1. True to form, there was no bitterness in it, no request for sympathy, just the same total sincerity that has made her one of the roster’s most popular names.

No rematch has been requested or granted. But for the second time in as many days, DRC’s new champion is hearing from the woman she just beat.