Might as well
Five minutes later, I left the Alchemy Research Club.
I got Enomoto's request which was stupidly simple in exchange for the piece of information that I needed.
What kind of request was it?
The dude asked me to stop eyeing Nikka.
Yeah. With his recovered poker face, Enomoto raised that request. And because of it, I couldn't determine whether he was looking out for that childhood friend or he was just confirming his suspicion about what I tried to do there.
In short, that guy was playing mind games with me. There's no winner or loser. Yet, I understood that it might be his way of telling me not to treat him the same as Ichihara Jun or Inugaki.
Furthermore, having understood that I wasn't the type to grovel on my knees to show respect to a senior, Enomoto would probably not demand it from me.
In any case, the little reaction he showed earlier was already a dead giveaway that he cares for the girl. No attempt of masking it as a probe to me could make me think otherwise.