[It's no problem! <3]

I don't take offense to Hiromu stepping in front of me. I know he means well, and it's not his fault I don't really come up to his shoulder. He has every reason in the world to be protective of me.

The stranger steps closer to his, his eyes scanning over us both. I notice his eyebrows furrow slightly when they focus on me, and I also notice that one of his eyes glows red. Because that doesn't make me uncomfortable at all.

I don't think this is anything related to Vaglass, though. Not with those plants literally growing at his feet.

"I'm sorry for my appearance." He says, sounding a little exasperated, but not, I don't think, with us. His voice has a strange echo to it, though we're hardly in any place likely to provide a natural echo.

This is just getting more and more strange, but I suppose since we fell through a hole underneath our bed, I shouldn't consider anything impossible.

"My name is Kazuraba Kouta." He says after a moment. "And if you are willing to trust me for a bit, I can take you out of this forest."