The older man had been so focused on his little project, he hadn't realized the lovely voice was speaking to him. Then again, he was the only one in here. After a beat of silence, Kotetsu finally looked up and locked on to the girl standing right in front of him. The strange familiarity made his chest ache suddenly and all concept of communication vanished along with it. He sort of shook his head to banish the strange spell.

"Oh! Uh--" he faltered in his attempt to respond and clear the table at the same time. Multi-tasking was not one of his better skills and it took a bit of extra processing power before he made hiding his artistic calamity top priority. "--this is nothing really, I was just, uh, you know, messing around." It was a hurried explanation, but that was the best he could do on such short notice! Once it was out of the spotlight, the former Hero recovered his friendly demeanor.

"Hello," he greeted in turn with an enthusiastic grin as if he had never been making something and she had never asked her question. "What's your name?"