I think you answered the first question by asking the second and third.
[though he never loses the sense of amusement or feigned pleasantness in his tone, there are other things that slip in pretty clearly. his suspicions, his curiosity—there are things happening here that simply don't add up.
he knows who she is, even if only vaguely from a couple of meetings; it's not as if she's a total stranger to him, after all. but he knows for certain that kondou's never come up in a conversation with her, nor has his hair. most people didn't seem to point out the similarities in their hairstyles anyway (even if it's something souji is glad he can do), but yuuki seems surprised at what has been his hair routine for years now.
why?
that's the real question here. and maybe in another time and place, he'd have already drawn his sword and held it to her neck because of a potential threat. but he doesn't sense that here, and he knows better than to act on his suspicions that way in a place like this one. there is a clear dissonance in memories here, which leads to a vague notion somewhere in the back of his mind that somewhere else, in another time and place, they'd met and he is the fool here.
well, it doesn't need to sit much on the back of his mind when she nearly outright addresses it. ]
That's a pretty funny assumption to make, you know? I know who you are. [which isn't a lie. still, there's not much use in beating around the bush.
he'd probably have been more playful, more teasing, more outright frustrating about the whole thing if not for the fact that yuuki said that name. bringing up kondou, especially when this souji hasn't seen him in about a year? it dredges up that thing known as feelings, and it means he wants to get to the bottom of this. what she knows about him and kondou specifically.
...along with where she came from and what she remembers, because there is definitely something different here compared to their last encounters.] It doesn't seem like that means much, though. Not when you clearly know too much that I don't remember telling you. [he may just be a little scarier now than he was before, despite the smile.]
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[though he never loses the sense of amusement or feigned pleasantness in his tone, there are other things that slip in pretty clearly. his suspicions, his curiosity—there are things happening here that simply don't add up.
he knows who she is, even if only vaguely from a couple of meetings; it's not as if she's a total stranger to him, after all. but he knows for certain that kondou's never come up in a conversation with her, nor has his hair. most people didn't seem to point out the similarities in their hairstyles anyway (even if it's something souji is glad he can do), but yuuki seems surprised at what has been his hair routine for years now.
why?
that's the real question here. and maybe in another time and place, he'd have already drawn his sword and held it to her neck because of a potential threat. but he doesn't sense that here, and he knows better than to act on his suspicions that way in a place like this one. there is a clear dissonance in memories here, which leads to a vague notion somewhere in the back of his mind that somewhere else, in another time and place, they'd met and he is the fool here.
well, it doesn't need to sit much on the back of his mind when she nearly outright addresses it. ]
That's a pretty funny assumption to make, you know? I know who you are. [which isn't a lie. still, there's not much use in beating around the bush.
he'd probably have been more playful, more teasing, more outright frustrating about the whole thing if not for the fact that yuuki said that name. bringing up kondou, especially when this souji hasn't seen him in about a year? it dredges up that thing known as feelings, and it means he wants to get to the bottom of this. what she knows about him and kondou specifically.
...along with where she came from and what she remembers, because there is definitely something different here compared to their last encounters.] It doesn't seem like that means much, though. Not when you clearly know too much that I don't remember telling you. [he may just be a little scarier now than he was before, despite the smile.]