[Her hesitation flies straight over Hijikata's head... or is he just tactfully ignoring it?]

I guess curiosity will always keep driving people to go on dangerous adventures like that, huh. In any case I feel like I already have a much clearer picture of your archon and the Akademiya now.

[Faruzan may only have given him the absolute basics, but he's a warrior, not a scholar! Having a broad sense of things is enough for him.]