Naaahhhh, if that were the case, you'd think I'd have chocolates piled up from my league of secret admirers.

[ a offhand remark. and it isn't a question that really merits a real response. stll, non-committal: ]

And what's the point of sitting across from you? It's not like you're gonna steal a bite from me or anythin'.

[ ... as if that's the reason why gojo wouldn't sit beside nanami in the first place.

but that's the end of that half-hearted protest. and normally gojo might jump at the chance for the usual back-and-forth -- especially when he's spent so long in some kind of animated suspension all on his lonesome, left with nothing but his rampant thoughts and the hope that what he's done so far would be enough. he's made pretty good headway if he thinks about it, if he really believes that his heart's been in the right place this entire time. but there's still the fact that gojo harbors no delusions that he's not the strongest of their current generation... which doesn't bode well when the second or the third or fourth's given free reign, given the nature of the sorcerer families and their shitty hierarchies and traditions.

and if one of their first grades has been here for at least a month... ]

I guess we're getting distracted... Is the food that good over here that you just up and retired to go barhopping every other day or something?

Or did some god also put you under arrest?