[Qilin]

Shiro is quite the character, isn't he?

I didn't think he would be clever enough to nonchalantly trick his pursuers into going along with his pace. Aside from that initial lie he told, he even managed to turn two pursuers against each other with a few choice words. As such, I was mildly disappointed when he actually went back to his dormitory, the most obvious place to look, as if nothing happened. Well, to be fair, he didn't intend to leave behind his school pin in the first place, but the bounty should have already branded him as a marked man at that point. Or perhaps people don't take bounties from that particular gang all too seriously, I guess?

Also, I'm not too sure how the katana guy went from wanting to kill him to eating a meal with them. Does he not take this task as seriously as he says? Well, it doesn't really matter much. It's pretty much established at this point that his behavior is guided by a specific code of ethics. This instance might just be another example of such ethic-bound behavior.