Ryuuko shook her head, "No, I must ask myself. Blake will want me to ask if it is what I want." Alicia advocating on her behalf might be nice, but Ryuuko wanted to do things herself, and Blake wanted her to learn how to do it too. Ask for things that she wanted, or to express her desires. Ryuuko said, "If I need you, I will tell you. Blake tests me." In little ways, and sometimes when he asked her a question, she wondered if it was a test of some kind. Not always though. Sometimes Blake just wanted to know what she preferred.
"Blake hunted them," Ryuuko said, "He must have had reason." She wasn't blind to the knowledge that her guardian once hunted her kind. She remembered what her biological mother had called him. But Blake wasn't that anymore. He was now a "mother" of a dragon, and protected by Ryuuko, even if she had no idea that it was more Blake protecting her. Even if Blake hung up his sword, others had not.
She frowned, "He killed dragons because of his own failings. That is the worst thing he could do." So many times, from what she read, individual human failures were taken out on others.