He blushed. How cute. It made Kio smile more, really warming up to the boy. He realised, perhaps belatedly, that were Allen just a few years older, Kio would have made a decent effort to flirt with him. However, he was probably only a few years older than Ritsuka, which meant that Kio would be a pervert, like Soubi. No one in their right minds wanted to be like Soubi.

"I think you're fairly cute, Allen-kun." He smiled again. "They made us draw bowls of fruit, so having someone like you to sketch quickly is a real pleasure." He hoped he didn't seem like a pervert, the last thing he needed was a nurse being called over and Allen having to explain that Kio touched him in the bad place or something.

Akuma? What in the world was that? A virus or something? "Innocence? Like the kind you lose when you grow up?" He blinked. This was too confusing. "Um... I don't understand. You get orders to find this Akuma and Innocence... what do you do with it?" Kio felt as though an entire world of possibilities existed out there and he was wasting his time being an artist and mothering Sou-chan.