...That was a terrible lie. Does he not go to school at all? He believes the part about not liking it. That's a vast majority of high schoolers, from what he remembers of his own experience. (He liked everything but the classes, personally.) But why lie about it? It's not like Ryoji's someone who could make him go.

And why lie so badly?

"I see," he says, even though he doesn't see at all. "So, how did you find this area?"