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[Give him a minute, gotta turn that over in his mind for a moment or two.]

... Y'know, when Miss Rinku talked 'bout that kinda thing, I didn't think they gonna be your birthday parties...
I kinda thought it was just a thing you did - like, "yeah, Eveé just does that sometimes, makes sense."

[But at least that makes it clear he was rolling with it and accepting it as "ah, that's my girlfriend" rather than anything else...??]

Don't matter though - I'd still go. 'N hell, it ain't like you don't got other rooms I could go hide in if I needed to, ouais?