"That's not what I meant," he mutters, grimacing — but he doesn't press the point, clearly deeming this road of conversation a dead-end.
Instead, he lets Cora talk, and watches Reiju's reactions instead; he, too, has noticed her avoidance of the question, and he wonders if his suspicions are correct. But he watches her for another reason, too: back home, he wasn't exactly known to be someone to associate with... well, much anyone outside his crew, at least before the Straw Hat alliance that escalated into Minks and Samurai and so on —
And yet, here, aside from their arrival, Reiju likely hasn't seen him without Cora somewhere nearby.
(He doesn't really care what she thinks of him — but whether she makes any connections about Cora, who clearly hasn't been as smart about what name shows on the tablet network like Pudding has been, that's his focus.)
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Instead, he lets Cora talk, and watches Reiju's reactions instead; he, too, has noticed her avoidance of the question, and he wonders if his suspicions are correct. But he watches her for another reason, too: back home, he wasn't exactly known to be someone to associate with... well, much anyone outside his crew, at least before the Straw Hat alliance that escalated into Minks and Samurai and so on —
And yet, here, aside from their arrival, Reiju likely hasn't seen him without Cora somewhere nearby.
(He doesn't really care what she thinks of him — but whether she makes any connections about Cora, who clearly hasn't been as smart about what name shows on the tablet network like Pudding has been, that's his focus.)