"Right..." he nodded, that smile fading away as Ryou began to worry again. A negative attitude is all he's had since Emily-Helen's death, even if right now the social-factor might have made him a little less so.

He'll go ahead and prepare to copy whatever Akito does, but in the meantime he tried to keep talking, lest his thoughts start to wander from the silence. "Have you been doing this a long time, Gazelle-san?"