[ Kim blinks at Aerith, surprised, and just now realizing that he's been somewhat neglectful in his task of collecting information. Of course there are trends with who was assigned to which clan. It only makes sense. And yet he had completely neglected to make a note of it, let alone try to figure out why they were assigned where they were. He'd been too caught up in the logical inconsistency of him and Harry being assigned to different clans when they were already colleagues - and colleagues that worked very well together, in his estimation - and neither of them being assigned to the Department of Enma when they were both extremely accomplished detectives. ]

You're right. I was assigned to Sutoku. [ He can't resist. He pulls his notebook out from his jacket pocket and scribbles down a little note, reminding himself to look into this further. ] How did you know? And what other trends have you observed? I had assumed it was left purely up to chance -- it didn't seem like the most logical assignment to me.

[ There is, he supposes, a perfectly reasonable explanation for Aerith's assignment, he supposes. She's a pretty, outgoing young woman, a natural fit for the sort of clan that deals largely in sex appeal, even if her charms are lost on Kim. It doesn't seem right that those traits would have her immediately shunted off to Tamamo, but this world is not so terribly different from Kim's own in that respect. ]