Damn right he isn't Kurogane thought, but kept his words to himself. His way of thinking was much different from the girls, and he knew it. She was trying to be more encouraging and supportive, things Kurogane couldn't manage through words and didn't even try for in other ways. The best he'd ever done was let the kid get beat up for the training he'd asked for, and that he'd given reluctantly.

But at least he had someone to talk to the magician that way. He wouldn't.

"We'll meet up tonight," Kurogane said, taking control of the conversation so as to move past last night's errors. He looked to Tsubaki again. "Your room's a good inbetween," he told her on the assumption that she was probably in the only female part of the place, "Just wait for us to get there." That way she wouldn't have to risk traveling alone and he could grab Fai on the way over.