[Leaving a devil who barks with cat toys made no sense to Aki this morning and it still doesn't make sense now. He begins walking, reminding Power to throw her capsule away because she keeps hoarding the containers themselves because she swears Meowy wants them. But surely not this many.]

They're not smarty-farties.

[Though, he isn't friends with any of them. But Aki isn't friends with anyone, so it's not their fault. Not entirely.]

I just help out because I felt bad leaving them last semester in the middle of things. I'll probably stop after finals. [By then he'll be way busier with other things. Applications, interviews... All the things he doesn't want to think about too deeply yet.] Besides, I thought you had a crush on the treasurey secretary. What happened to that?

[Reroute and change the topic. Typical way to drop a topic for him and distract Denji with something else. And speaking of...]

Did you schedule your make-up exam yet?