You can do it Ventus. You could probably stump him with something as simple as 'hoe' there. He's completely lost at sea with 'jury' already.

"Yeah, I can't." Vanitas knows it's a general you but he's being pedantic about it. "It's all the Watchers' deal." It's so arbitrary and inscrutable it might as well be 'because they want to'. Local teen understands court even less.

Vanitas devastates me by not enquiring after the apocalypse and assuming Ventus is just talking about the entropy all around them in general. Thematically they're technically the same thing but still. He sees Ventus's disinterested look and has a kneejerk reaction of 'good'. Vanitas has the rare allowance of hoarding, and these have been immaculately counted down to the broken bits.

Someday Vanitas will experience the joy of sneakers. Someday. Ventus calling him a dick makes the grin wider. Were you going to call him something else? "Ughhh... don't remind me." He could recite those lessons verbatim with his eyes closed if he wanted to (he does not want to). Well, he could reflexively hit the right answers without paying attention. "I skipped school today for this, I don't want it from you."

Speaking of. "Let's get moving." While they've still got that window of lost or late as an excuse. He's heading out.