Koumyou actually moves a little faster once Devero starts tensing up and squeezing his hand, just enough to come up alongside his fiance and hook their arms together. Just two weirdos on a stroll, nothing to see here.

"I think you getting a matching tattoo is perfect, really," Koumyou tells him at an easy conversational volume, not too quiet or too loud, right in the sweet spot that wouldn't strike anyone as suspicious.

"You have the circuitry because of what you are here, the new one could be just as symbolic of what I've been teaching you."