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[center] [color=LightBlue]L-Let’s just get this over with…[/color]
[color=888888]-Norika Tsukishima[/color][/center]

Norika simply stared blankly through the entire first half of Finn’s explanation, before giving voice to a soft [color=LightBlue]“O-Okay,”[/color] in confirmation that all they’d be doing was learning things together. Of course, she didn’t believe that for a minute, despite the boy detective’s fairly rational reason for his presence and assurance that he had no ulterior motives. The timing, the bizarre outfit he was wearing, the talk of “transformations”, it was all far too convenient, far too pertinent, to be as innocuous as he wanted her to believe it was. This, unsurprisingly, meant that she would once again have to be on high alert throughout his visit. After all, even the slightest slip up could be disastrous, and it wasn’t as if she could just tell him to leave, as much as she might have wanted to.

[color=LightBlue]“I-I, uh, I-I guess I understand…”[/color] Norika replied hesitantly once Finn had finished explaining his lattice example. [color=LightBlue]“O-Oh, and, umm… W-While it’s true I have a weak constitution, y-you don’t need to wear that suit for my sake,”[/color] she told the detective-turned-tutor, averting her gaze as she did so. [color=LightBlue]“B-Besides… I-I’m pretty sure suits like that are for protecting the person wearing them, not the other way around…”[/color]