Noticing how she seems to be standing quite a distance from him, he snubs his cigarette without a word and throws it properly in the nearest trash bin. Most people are bothered by his smoking. Even grandmother would not come near him because of the smell of tobacco on him. He wonders what Hokuto would do; if she would get angry at him.

He turns back to Belle, "You're not bothering me," he says while placing the boxes and the lighter in the inside pocket of his trench coat. I'm lost too, I can't help you," saying those words in his mind again, he realizes that he sounded harsher than he intended. "Where are you from?" He asks her with more warmth to make up for his snark reply.