"Alright, so the story goes like this..."
"Reo."
Reo straightened his back all rearing to get Zoemi up to the task as fast as possible but was stopped by the black-haired boy's raised hand.
"Slow down, we didn't even move past the inner gate. How about we casually talk about something else first and return to this subject after we will leave the capital?"
Zoemi smiled charmingly and cooled down the eagerness of his upperclassman without putting too much weight on the request, making it seem as if he wanted to learn more about the green-haired boy.
Which was kind of true, of course – after all he wanted to make sure that Reo would not turn out like Xenith with his character twisted to the extreme, but actually had a lot more to do about Zoemi's worries about being eavesdropped on by the wrong people.
"Wh-wha... you want to talk about something else...? Wh-wh-what about...?"
