Where she's from, that kind of greeting could be as genuine as it could be someone checking out if she's easy prey - the line between looking like a lost child being an advantage because people want to help and it being a disadvantage because she looks like someone who might have some things of worth on her and no protection nearby can be thin, especially in slum areas. This place looks a bit more like the area that she herself is from, only not a slum because there are worse places, but you can never be careful enough.

"I'm fine." It's... fairly obviously a lie, judging by how her eyes flick forth and back across the fronts of the houses around them and it takes her visible effort to concentrate them on Ryoji. "My friends are here, but this place is weird."