"Thank you," Noguchi offered between the teeth of her smile. If Flayn was confused, she was allowed to be, as long as she kept her attention right where it was. That was the one singular mission here: keep her undivided attention, just for a minute.

"Well, originally we were going to do a study on Yukimura-kun. Since we had three of us including him, it seemed interesting to do a study about how we two girls each see him, as well as how he sees himself. Unfortunately, I'm afraid it's lost a lot of its uniqueness since the self-portrait angle is gone. But I think we'll still manage. We like different things about him, after all.

"What about you? What do you most like about Yukimura-kun?"