"Oh, so she is your date?" He'd spoken with Voile briefly, and she seemed alright. Wasn't a troublemaker, which was all that really counted. "Well, the key to impressing a girl is to be bold and direct! There is no mere hoping!"

Romantic advice from Kiyotaka Ishimaru, what had the world come to. He knew absolutely nothing about impressing girls. But Aoi liked him well enough so it must have been pity the bold and direct thing at work, right?