Hayato eyed Shoan for a few moments. "Well, I suppose she is fairly reserved. Much like you."

"Maybe I'm just good at getting past that or something?" He mused as he looked out over the water.

"It's better then being considered some sort of final boss." Hayato replied with a chuckle. "Though I don't know if that's quite it either. I suppose you'd have to ask some of the others here their opinions on me to be sure."

He quirked an eyebrow. "You love the boy pilots and hate the fire pilots?" Hayato asked, his tone teasing.

"Mmm... She's certainly pretty if that's what you're asking. But it's a bit more then that too. She's alsi smart and fashionable, a bit funny when she likely doesn't mean to be too."

He lifted his inhalator to his lips and took a long drag. "And fun, I've got her to gamble with me over things a few times. Which is more for fun then anything else." The trail of smoke flowed from his lips. "I'm not really likely to marry her though. The Unicorn and Mantis thing doesn't work too much better then the Lion and Mantis thing after all."

"Daidoji-san seems to be in love with another man." He paused for a moment. "Not that such should be spread around, but I trust you to keep it between us."

"Not that such particularly matters either, it's not something that is important to making a match, and we get along well enough." He reached his heands above his head and stretched. "Plus after just a few days? It's likely just childish infatuation."

He did smirk at the end though a little humor in his tone. "Well, if that happened it would just mean you were right all along, huh?"

And if it turned out not to be temporary, there were always ways for a man to make himself happy. Not that he was going to talk to Shoan about that.

Skipping over the more difficult conversation his lips quirked into an amused smile. "Oh? Any particular reason why? Don't want to have known a romance novel lead?"

"You make a good point, and I'd certainly hate for Shinjo-san to pass away like that." He nodded a few times to himself. "Better to be avoided entirely."

"We really don't need a pack of fifty drifters attacking the city after all."

"Yeah, he really does. It's wise you didn't invite him on that hunt of ours." His lips curled into a smirk.

"Plus shooting drifters would get boring after the first dozen."

"Sounds like a idea for next time." It really didn't sound like an idea for next time. "We can all be suitably dashing and show off as he fire radiant weapons at the wildlife."

He struck what could be loosely considered a dashing pose. "How was that Date-chan!?"

Hayato sniggered at that. "Don't forget to flutter your eyelashes too."

Though honestly he was pretty sure Yul got a little more then fluttering eye lashes after his near death experience with Mumei.

"Yeah, just like that." Hayato replied with an approving nod, before pausing for a moment.

"But shouldn't you be the one showing off in the instance instead of being wooed by dashing Pilot-kun? He asked his tone a bit teasing. "I mean, then Kitsu-san can swoon and you'll get to catch her in your arms."