[Those are - Kaede, those are her books. She blinks, and seems about to hold onto them or take them back, but her shoulders twitch up in a tiny shrug and her arms drop and those are Kaede's books now apparently.]
Sometimes I'm nice. [@ Kaede. It's a joke. A deadpan one, and Shuichi might start to get the sense that she really is just like that, all her expressions slightly muted, all her words deliberately plucked forth from a default watchful silence. She watches him bow, does nothing for a moment, and bows back more shallowly, almost shyly.]
You too. [Considers him further for a second, assembling opinions.] Looking after Akamatsu is never a one-person job, so let's keep it up.
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Sometimes I'm nice. [@ Kaede. It's a joke. A deadpan one, and Shuichi might start to get the sense that she really is just like that, all her expressions slightly muted, all her words deliberately plucked forth from a default watchful silence. She watches him bow, does nothing for a moment, and bows back more shallowly, almost shyly.]
You too. [Considers him further for a second, assembling opinions.] Looking after Akamatsu is never a one-person job, so let's keep it up.