Kyouma opened his mouth in order to respond, but ended up shaking his head and sighing instead. This girl really was one heck of a carnivore, wasn't she...? She did have a point, though; the meal was huge and decent and the price for each dish was relatively cheap given the portion size. If worst came to worst, he could very easily just ask to have it packed up so he could refrigerate it at home for another time.

By the time Torako brought up exploring abandoned alleyways for the powerup, Kyouma had slowly milled through about half of his steak. With such a meal, after all, slow and steady seemed to be the only solution to even attempt to finish it all in one go. BUt with her comment, he stopped for a moment and stared at his kouhai, almost in disbelief. Was she serious about letting herself be knocked out just to see if a rumor was true...? And all for a powerup?

"H-hey, I'm not entirely sure if that's a smart idea. You know, at all. There's probably a safer way to research this, don't you think...?"

Of course, given the way that Torako had been since he had met her, it was unlikely that she'd heed his call for safety. That just meant he had to follow her to make sure that something shady and/or undesirable wouldn't occur. Even IF they had just met, he was still supposed to at least TRY to be some sort of a reliable upperclassman in some way, shape, or form.