"Ah, I see." He nods, lacing the baton between his fingers. Their conversation had dwindled, and he isn't quite sure what to say to a lady he just met. The silence between them stretches for a while before he hits on something he could ask.

"Which department will you be joining, Miss Remilia?" It doesn't seem appropriate to just use her first name. Dropping titles had been strange for a while, especially when switching over from Japanese. A lack of suffixes in his native tongue indicated great familiarity.