[ His patience with her ignorance of what should be more than an every day thing - it's reassuring. Comforting really, that somehow, despite everything that same Shinjiro is still there to some degree. Mitsuru and Akihiko had spent so long shouldering the burden of being the older, more responsible ones that she's rarely had an opportunity to look back at when things were, on the face of it, so much simpler.

Now that she does have a chance to reflect, it has her smiling, small and ever so brief but genuine. ]

I think we both know how useful calculus is going to prove during our time here. Still, if you require tuition...

[ She's joking... maybe. Still, just because she's dealing with a tiny little thing like being stuck in some other dimension doesn't mean Mitsuru is willing to risk letting her grades slip when and if she ever gets out of here.

Still, onto the more pressing issue of... learning about how to deal with stains in your clothes. Which is beginning to sound like a rather fruitless endeavour if the way Shinjiro talks about it is any indicator... ]

If it won't come out half of the time then it would seem that the simpler solution to this is to simply avoid getting stains on one's clothes altogether.

[ Said as though the girl has never gotten a red spaghetti sauce splatter on a white blouse in her entire life, because she probably hasn't. Does she look like she regularly gets marks on her clothes? Come on. The fact that she even regularly wears a white turtleneck in the first place... ]

In any case... I don't think I have anything that requires that level of attention on this occasion.

[ Honestly, you would probably have a hard time telling if any of it has actually been worn... ]