[ His teeth are clenched as he turns on his heel to continue walking, not wanting to admit that he wasn't exactly the most adept reader. What did he owe to this complete stranger that he was, by the way, helping out of the good grace of his heart? So what if he couldn't read that well? It wasn't exactly at the top of his priority list when he was eating moldy bread in a dirty alleyway for two years of his life. ]

It won't make a difference either way. [ Rin is quite stubborn when it comes to straying from his own desires, so it'd have to take more than that to get him to go out of his way of his daily life to study. He'll just change the subject!! ] I don't believe you. If yer that good at fighting how come ya did something so reckless as go off in the mountains by yourself?

[ Not very smart if you ask him!! Who's really the stupid one here. ]

I might not have book smarts, but at least I'm not enough of a dumbass to do that.