"Yeah, except it's not just a story." Ira, for his part, let out a faintly amused noise as Saori finally let the more blatant hint out of the bag. He let the blanket slide of his shoulders, revealing the vampire bat on his shoulder once he figured she was warmed up again. Hints of his custom job's garb were exposed by the lowering of the warm fabric, even though no one would likely recognize them

"...What. You couldn't tell? Sorry. Not nearly as original as that." So what if the statement he made was technically a lie in the sense that the engineer would glean it as? Gelin didn't need to know that to know that the four standing before him were more than what he'd claimed themselves to be to the others - simply four souls who were once lost in the snow.