[Secondhand smoke can be a hazard, it's true!! At least she doesn't seem to mind...but he'll be properly apologetic in a bit, once all this initial distraction is out of the way.

Though, admittedly, it's. Pretty distracting. Shizuo doesn't even notice the smaller girl beside him until she speaks up; he blinks down, startled to find a familiar face but not unpleasantly so.]

Yeah, is that it? Guess that sort of explains things...a little while ago I got challenged to an arm-wrestle by a person I'd barely started talking to, so I was sort of wondering if it's actually a big thing around here.

[Kind of a weird way to kill time...but, well, it seems just as effective as anything else? Shizuo looks back over to the competition at hand, frowning thoughtfully.] Wonder how long this one's going to be. Who do you think's gonna win?