Toru didn't buy it. What job did such things to a person? Was Kazuya working as a lion tamer or something? And besides, after that encounter with Kazuya's brother... he doubted it was anything so tame. But he bit his lip, resisting the urge to expose the truth, and instead smiled in return. Later, when they were somewhere safer, he would ask.
"O-oh, I see... it must be quite a job, to leave you that battered. Er... do you want to go somewhere with me? It's... it's been too long since we last spoke, I think."