[Of course there wasn't anything to be afraid of. This was Joshua, after all. Joshua wouldn't hurt him. The worst he could say is "no", and... well, he'd already said that, in a sense, hadn't he? So there really wasn't anywhere else it could go in the direction of being worse.]
How are you so sure?
[It's genuinely curious, and Joshua glances back, watching Ryoji. Unless Ryoji had tried it before, he honestly wasn't sure how you could make such a claim.]
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How are you so sure?
[It's genuinely curious, and Joshua glances back, watching Ryoji. Unless Ryoji had tried it before, he honestly wasn't sure how you could make such a claim.]