[b][i] – Leroy[/i][/b]

“Nia?” Leroy repeated, feeling a little confused himself upon hearing the unfamiliar name. But brushing that aside for now, he addressed the things he could answer. “There’s no real harm in it per se, but if you reveal everything about yourself so easily then suspicious individuals will find a way to use it against you.” In his thoughts he added, [i]‘Like me, for example. Though I don’t really find much fun in blackmailing people. Mostly just seeing how people react to… Various stimuli.’[/i] He let out a small laugh. “There’s a phrase that says, ‘A hedge between keeps friendship green.’ It means you should respect each other’s privacy, but basically there’s also the implication that you shouldn’t know everything about the other person.”

Actually, he was wrong. The idiom was pretty much only used to refer to respecting people’s privacy, but Little Feather didn’t need to know that. Besides, he was pretty sure that he had sounded logical enough to appear quite convincing as long as she was no real expert on the real origin and history defining how the idiom had come to be, and why it was used to describe what it did. [i]‘Or unless she’s already grown paranoid to the point she’d suspect anything I say.’[/i] That was rather unlikely considering the small amount of ink he had used and the short time frame, but anything was possible. After all, he had seen someone grow drunk on his ink not too far back. Then hearing two unfamiliar names, Leroy shook his head. “Nope. Haven’t met them.” However, given the context of the situation he made a guess. “Would that be their names?” He asked, tilting his head over at the red-haired students they had been talking about.

Noticing Kathy (if Little Feather confirmed that it was indeed her name), was the next King, Leroy sat back in his chair grinning. Curious to know what the most recent victim would want to make someone else do. “Hm.” Listening to her command, he felt mildly disappointed that she had picked something rather simple to do. However, seeing the male student’s (Ryuu) reaction, he grinned from ear to ear, happy to see that it was not nearly as boring as he thought it would be. It would have been funnier if Carmen had been a bit troubled as well, but he decided to content himself with learning a little more about her character.

With the next round, he noticed a completely unfamiliar girl become the next King. Now he was rather curious to know what the man (Nikola) had been doing with their temporary King, however, he couldn’t even try to make any assumptions about the situation before he realized that his number was being called. [i]‘I’m going to get hugged? Who’s number 9 then?’[/i] He wondered, keeping his usual light smile on as he nonchalantly looked around trying to determine who the other number was first. “Hm.” He saw a semi-familiar individual standing up and admit that he was number nine. Matt, the guy that had been looking around for a girl the day after the demon party-crashing fiasco. That was pretty much his entire impression of the guy.

“I’m number four.” Leroy announced, raising his hand up and smiling. “Pity it won’t be a cute girl but… Could be worse I suppose.” He jested. Then getting up from his chair, the artist went over to Matt and held his arms out expectantly. “Well?”