[ The rate Shouhei makes friends at is amazing. Yata kept picking fights with people at first. SHOUHEI!? Anyway, the teasing is successful. ]

Hey, leave me alone! What's with that "almost"...

[ DON'T MISUNDERSTAND, etc. He laughs it off eventually. ]

I just thought that, y'know, since Mikoto-san and Kusanagi-san ain't here— [ He catches himself dwelling on that part quickly and shakes his head. ] Well, I gotta pick up the slack.