He'd assumed the nurse was taking him to a doctor, but she was just escorting him to the cafeteria, as it turned out. Ryusei had just turned to ask her about that, but something about the room bothered him for some reason, and when he'd finished looking uneasily around the room, the nurse had left.

Okay, he'd ask someone else. Ryusei stuffed his hands into his pockets, and it was at that moment his stomach decided to complain at him, so he grudgingly got on the food line.

He figured it out when he sat down. There had been a ceiling window in the room previous, but this room didn't have any windows at all. Who was the genius who designed this place? Were they just cheap? he thought, derisively looking around at the walls again.

It was in the midst of this glance that he spotted someone nearby. Should he go for it? He hesitated a moment, then got up. "Excuse me?" he said tentatively as he approached. "Is this seat taken?"