"What's of interest to you is that I refrain from turning you into the first date's dinner." Aidou tilted his head. "But why do I get the distinct impression you'd enjoy that too much?"

From across the room, he spied Zelos sitting with the dark-haired girl from the Sun Room. That reminded him, he'd planned on talking with her, hadn't he?

"Perhaps I should say it in a different way: You wouldn't still be here if you thought I had nothing to put forward. The game wouldn't be a game if we had written each other off." Sitting back, Aidou just observed. "In return for information I could easily get from another source, what do you think I should be offering you? That's the question."