[ he stops idly running his fingers up and down the pen lines when junpei speaks up, because then he's snapping his fingers in recollection. ]

Right, that's what they're called! Manga, yeah. And, uh, a bunch of different things, I think? Some were — [ he pauses, then, suddenly, and looks away, for all the world like he might be blushing if ghosts were able to do that; for a reason, too, because niko had been into... well, edwin had confessed to him under duress that she'd described some of the comics she had as "sweet and explicit" (and definitely between two boys because when charles had leafed through one he'd dropped it on the floor and sworn out loud because bloody hell, he didn't know about sweet but the explicit part was definitely right) and maybe he just. won't talk about those at all — ]

I mean, we just got them, they belonged to a friend. But one of them was this series about this small detective guy? Seemed fun, that.