[ ah, there it is again, he thinks. it isn't simply just a lack of confidence, but something deeper. ... or so he gets the impression. naturally, he has no concept of what this stems from— self-deprecatory words took many forms and derived from the most curious places at times. regardless, he presses his index fingers against his own lips, before drawing it outwards, almost as if to do the same to her.

that is, before he just ... winks. ] That's not the case at all. At the very least, I think very differently. I am something of a detective in training. You could say I have an eye for people... [ his expression then dissolves into something marginally more easygoing. ]

But, I believe the same. Doing something is always more effective than doing and thinking nothing at all.