I would hope so. She’s been nothing but kind to me, and I hope I’ve only managed to return the favor in the time we’ve known each other.

[And that much is nothing but true.

As for the rest, Markus’ interest in fashion is not of the professional variety, but it is of the deeply interested sort. That much is quite obvious by the way his attention has been garnered away from everything else, directly planted onto the conversation at hand. He considers Illya for a moment more, android-still, then:]

So did you design clothing back in Russia?