Kozue stopped walking, and looked up when she heard Kou's voice; she was still gripping the broken phone in one hand, mostly because she feared that putting it in her school bad might cause it to splinter into fragments, and that'd just be a terrible mess. "Oh, Oubai-senpai." She bowed. "I, um, I was just surprised to find out…" She frowned. Would she have to say it outright—and wasn't Akuba-senpai dating Kanaye, anyway?
"It's not something I should worry about, right? And thank you, for offering to listen."