[Huh. So he knows Ayato... but then again he is the Otherworlder Ambassador, so it's no wonder.]
Fair enough.
[He finally stops poking and prodding Nikkolaus, and for a while they just wander in silence, with Hijikata smoking and the bull apparently still content to bear with the men's company. He lets his eyes wander across the green grasslands, wondering if the gryphon that took off on him might have liked Nikkolaus... but if so, it surely would have stuck around at his arrival.]
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Fair enough.
[He finally stops poking and prodding Nikkolaus, and for a while they just wander in silence, with Hijikata smoking and the bull apparently still content to bear with the men's company. He lets his eyes wander across the green grasslands, wondering if the gryphon that took off on him might have liked Nikkolaus... but if so, it surely would have stuck around at his arrival.]