[He wants to hear everything she has to say, and tell her everything, too. Ren isn’t typically a big talker, especially about himself; he’s more used to letting others carry their conversations and saying only what’s needed. But with Kotone, he feels like he can tell her anything, and he wants to be known as much as he wants to know her, too.]

That’s right, [he nods,] I’m seventeen too. Just finished my second year at Shujin Academy in Tokyo. I’m not from there originally, though.

[He sobers a bit. Might as well get this part over with.]

My parents sent me there to stay with a guardian for the year. I was on probation.