So far, his teasing hasen't gone too far. He did not dislike his company. It's more from self-containing his own feelings, so he doesn't get confused from one over the other. Although he has tried to keep his expression passive, his talking to him helped him feel distracted and forget his troubles if only for a little bit.

At his offer, "You draw? Yes, I remembered you draw. You drew a picture of me instead of copying the rules for your lesson." Once he managed to find the words. "It might be a different version of what you remembered, but I still kept it."

He then made up his mind and decided. "All right. A poem in exchange for your drawings. How soon? Later in the evening after the sun goes down?"