WHO: Kai, Kou WHAT: Assignment buddies WHERE: School. WHEN: During class, post-Masamidungeon WHY: Because they're diligent students.
[The class has been allowed to chat while they're working on an in-class math assignment. Kai, whose desk is near enough to Kou's, looks up from his seemingly incomprehensible notes and turns to his classmate.]
Do you understand this at all?
[He sounds - and looks - a little tired, and almost fake, like he's trying hard to preserve an air of normalcy about him.]