Ah -- I hope you don't mind my taking notes. I just think it's best for us to get a handle on how this place works, [ Kim says, nodding down at his notebook. It's not quite an apology, but he knows that notetaking can make others uncomfortable. He does it for that precise reason fairly often, though not in this specific case, and he wouldn't want to make Aerith feel unnecessarily scrutinized. ]

But I wouldn't be so quick to ascribe such altruistic motivations to me. [ She's given him a rather flattering description, even if she achieved it largely through the process of elimination. He smiles at her, then, a blink-and-you'll-miss it expression. ] My aversion to those decorations is purely selfish in nature. My eyesight is poor enough without taking on additional damage from someone else's poor design choices.

[ He shuts his notebook and puts it back into his pocket. Information for information, he decides. ]

Those are some interesting observations you've made, though. I'm with the police back home. My partner was brought here at the same time as I was, and neither of us were assigned to Enma. I had no particular desire to work for law enforcement here, but I did think it was odd.

[ They've already got the experience and the skillsets. It hadn't made any sense that they weren't. But if they were looking for other traits within them, things inherent to them rather than their career choices? It makes a little more sense. ]