"I can always eat!" Hikaru said. Naturally, he was 15, he was basically a bottomless pit. As his friend Isumi had moaned about on a number of occasions. "Is there ramen?"

Despite what some people may have said in the past, he wasn't completely brain dead and could take a hint. Sometimes. He still wasn't sure what a poppet was (some kind of puppet? but why would she call him a puppet?), but she seemed nice enough and he still wanted to be nice to the dream person, so he was willing to just go with it without asking too many questions. Mallia was certainly more gentle than several of the adults he'd met, and it was a whole lot better than getting dragged around by Ogata.