[He stops waving so he can hold himself steady on his board, and he gives Gray a surprised look at that question. It's not the first time he's been told he has a knack for interacting with kids, but it still surprises him every time.]

No, I don't. But my partner had a child, and I would look after her sometimes. [He doesn't really want to talk about them when it means thinking about how they're gone, and it shows in his expression, but it's somehow easy to be honest with Gray. Unlike the other Kenoma, he doesn't have any reason to withhold the truth from her.]

There was an orphanage I volunteered at in the city, too. I didn't really know anything about children when I first started, so I tried to learn from the perspective of a parent. [If she thinks he acts like one, then maybe he's more successful than he thought...?]