[SHOCK HORROR oh. There's no music -- no challenge -- Hibiki feels himself blush in embarrassment at the thought that, well, it'd be exactly like the games...

(...but, really, what else was he supposed to think?)

He hands her back the apple anyway, ignoring his Abra's mental anguish. She really doesn't look it, but she's so, so disappointed that he didn't let her have a snack.]

I guess it's not all the same -- [He bites his tongue - fourth walling people isn't nice, and while the best of his comedy anime did it his life wasn't exactly a comedy. More like a tragedy. A really, really big tragedy.] I mean, er, here. Cadachible loves eating things, but... luckily for your apple, I guess, she doesn't like fruit peels.

[He's learned a lot about his team in the few hours he's met them.]