...This is only the second time we've ever met?? Ryunosuke thinks indignantly. How can you possibly know?

Good grief. This guy really is like Gina, in a lot of ways, isn't he? She'd completely mistrusted him at first too, based on his being of adult age. At least she'd been able to tell he wasn't a teenager, though.

Meanwhile, people in their forties continue to call him 'boy' and 'lad' and 'guttersnipe'. He's absolutely cursed by his baby face.

"I am still a student," he blandly points out. "I'd even show you my imperial university badge, if I still had it.... Not that it means much here."