"Yeah, I think I'm already signed up for one of those. I hope it helps." He really has no idea what he wants to do with the rest of his life, assuming it keeps going for a while longer. He doesn't quite take that for granted the way many others do.

Ryoji only kind of knows what steampunk is, but he nods. "It looks pretty cool. Do you like, um, steampunk?" Maybe he's just reading too much into it. Gears are probably a thing people find interesting, right?