"Okay," Xel says, with a this-table-is-getting-in-the-way-of-snuggling look, and looks up, annoyed. "Mou, Kevin-san, my shift doesn't start before lunch, I'm here on my own time--well, you shouldn't have come for one now--" He exchanges an irritated and despairing glance with Iago, and finally declares in exasperation, "Mou, fine, but you're paying double. No, not double or nothing, just double...!"
He snickers. "Poor little man. But, you know, he probably just thought of you as a trial." Shrugging, "He doesn't need charity, ne. And he doesn't need unmixed admiration any more than he can tolerate more than a whiff of disapproval. I'm trying to help him get grounded, ne, increase his tolerance. Besides," he adds, eyelid twitching slightly, "he was being very selfish."
He looks up as though he hadn't realized the sawdust was there, eyes wide, and then slides a covert scowl at Kevin. "It's going to be sugar-and-melon-and-wasabi-marinated-ocean creature, ne. Once I get behind that counter everyone's going to place orders and Ivonka-san's going to glower at me," he predicts gloomily. "And I had plans."
So it is! Best as in closest to actual English, or...? Does the inclusion of Kevin's Horrible Pizza mean you want to move from poor Clara's inbox? The other thread with it's just in Esinde's, though...