He's just hoping that maybe keeping Taiki's mind preoccupied with something else will help him not think too much about whatever is making him look so sad. Even if it's a dumb trivial topic like clothes of all things. Even these ridiculously-coloured ones.

He gives the other a smile before standing up and browsing through the part of the mass of clothes here that are red-coloured, but glances back when his mind catches up with what's so odd about that statement.

"What you were told to?" Someone told Taiki what to wear?