Ryuu simply sighed in defeat. He did it again- he interrupted someone with his own b-tching. Adenine then asked him if they were friends.

"...Well, she ran away when I met her, so... That's that."

Cortez flinched.

The pirate captain noticed that she was getting a lot more attention now. Did taking her hat off bless her with some sort of angelic spell? No, she highly doubted it. But from what she could tell, now was definitely a good time to introduce herself. She looked at David, whose arm she did not notice, then at the sunglasses-wearing man, and then at the cute person who managed to open an opportunity to introduce herself.

"I'm," she began before a bright, big smile entered her face. "Me name is [i]Jeanne R. Cortez[/i], mates! Captain of the Screamin' Pearl! I thank you for finally giving me a chance to say my name, aye!"

"Wow," was all Ryuu managed to come up with in a joking manner. "You mean you came all the way here to say your name?"

"Ah."

"...Huh?..."

The two simply blinked at each other.

Suddenly, Cortez jumped behind David, slightly hiding with humorously tearful eyes. She whispered to the student, whose arm she still did not notice, 

"He is a bully, aye?"

"[b][i]BULLY MY ASS, WOMAN!!![/i][/b] I was just kidding about that, by the way! And stop looking at me like that!"

Cortez pulled out her gun, saying in an annoyed, yet timid manner,

"Bully."

"Okay, I officially give up. I'm gonna go shoot myself n- hm?"

Ryuu noticed that Adenine was now staring at someone. He turned, only to find a dark-haired boy standing in front of her. No, he was not like good ol' David. This guy seemed... different, in a sense. In fact, he really had no problems with people being different.

What surprised him was the knowing look they gave each other.

[i]Wait a damn second,[/i] the otaku thought, a vein behind his head about to pop. [i]This guy... He must be that one annoying-ass "cousin" character so many anime use. Aw, sh-t, he better not start spouting like "I was the first one to kiss her ass" or something![/i]

Ryuu stood in a somewhat protective manner, though he was severely misunderstanding things in the dumbest way possible.

Meanwhile, Cortez quietly asked David after recovering from her ironic bully trauma,

"What's yer name again...? I forgot because I... Er, I mean, Me forgot because me got scared back there..."