Shinjiro nodded and said, "Ah, just one this year? Well, I wish you the best of luck, and yeah, I've heard about it, been wondering how it might work, hope it's interesting." At the comment of how he looked, he actually looked down at his clothes and realized how disheveled they looked and quickly readjusted how they looked and looked back at Shirazumi and responded to the question, "Nah, I was walking downtown earlier and had heard some commotion and was walking around where it was to come back when I got jumped by these 2 lvl 0s from the Skill-Outs, so I had to throw them off and run a bit, but luckily they didn't chase far, so I eventually was just walking. Guess I didn't check how I looked until now." He smiled and chuckled a little nervously.<br/><br/>He then thought about something from what had happened earlier, and it worried him.<span style="color: #0000FF">"If I left all those marks there, the police will be keeping an eye out for it, which may include the skill tests. Though, the ice and water would've been all gone or just small pools of water intermixed with the blood, the officers wouldn't know what skill had done it, but the scorch marks might give it away, unless I can take care of that by test day, then I should be fine. If this was any other country, they might just think it a tire mark or something, but here, they know about Esper Skills well. I should be fine, left no fingerprints or anything anywhere.</span><br/><br/>He looked at Shirazumi and asked, "You heading anywhere tonight or just chilling in the dorms?" He kinda hoped he was going somewhere so he could politely excuse himself to his room, though company wouldn't be too bad.<span style="color: #0000FF">Wait, what am I thinking? Company? After what those people had done to me <span style="font-style: italic">there?</span> Do I want someone to betray my trust in others again?</span>He was looking at Shirazumi with a somewhat blank, though open, expression, so as to not worry him or bring about any suspicion. Though he knew he had been in the right to protect himself back there, the man<span style="font-style: italic">did</span>have a gun after all, and had nearly shot him, despite the fact that he couldn't remember what had all happened.