Bottled Emotions

As they went to the spicy ramen place, Ren Jidian could not take it anymore and took Watanabe Endo's hand.

He whispered. "Endo, what's going on? You can tell me. You don't look too well."

"I'm fine." Watanabr Endo said as cooly as always, and took his hand away from him.

Ren Jidian frowned and could not eat well for the rest of their actual lunch. He can barely manage to keep a conversation with Furakawa Ichiro too.

Which wasn't helpful to Ichiro at all, since there were no animals this time to talk about.

The trip to the pet cafe earlier was a warm-up, a way to test if he could let go of his anxieties.

But as he went to sip some of his soup from the bowl, he became anxious that his fingers shook.

He set it down, and patted Ren Jidian's shoulder. "Ibuki-san, do you think those people were staring at us just now?"

"I don't think so." Ren Jidian said absent-mindedly.