The words didn't bother him so much as the manner in which they were spoken did. Dumb as Rin could be at times, he did pick up on social cues and body language better than most kids his age did. Lord knew he spent enough time watching people, with all the hours he spent on his own either in school zoning out or out in the city avoiding going home.

This guy was reminding him of the older girls in the seedier districts in True Cross City, and he wasn't sure he liked it.

The touch turned his expression from confused in to a nasty scowl, hand coming up to smack the fingers away from him.

"I paid attention." A lie, evidenced by the fact that he was still wearing his beads. All of them. "Maybe I wanna ignore it for a while, ever think of that?"