[This is a first for Vero. There are a lot of monsters that don't talk, for sure, but they usually don't make the effort to communicate by other means. And those are monsters. Shigeru, as far as Vero can tell, is wholly human.]

Not really? [As in, he didn't work that hard.] I'm kinda just trying not to have a mental break-down in public, so I got super focused --

[Vero.]

W-what I mean, is - !! You've been watching for a while, right? So I really don't mind!