He turned on his heels without any further comment and followed the other; Jiho figured that he probably wasn’t interested in him at all considering that he didn’t even earn a simple, faint smile with that terribly cheesy pick-up line but that’s never been a obstacle to the young musician, has it? He’d stay stubborn and bludgeon him until he’d eventually give in.
'Always the same with the people here - once they hear me play though, they all come at my feet.', he thought to himself, humming a soft tune as he kept following the shopkeeper until they reached the very back of the small bookstore. “Really? It's a pity though, isn't it? People nowadays seem to have lost the ability to simply shut up and listen.. My apologies if this is getting too personal but what do you think about classical music?”, he asked, his head tipping to the side ever so slightly.
The floor emitted it customary creeks as he walked down isle after isle. “Perhaps they have.” He replied before stopping before a brown box standing on top a table of books. “No need to apologize.” He replied in a calm but monotonous voice before he moved the lid of the box to the side. “It’s not whether what I think about classical music, ” he began as he lifted his hands to flip through the notes. “It’s more about the fact that I do not care for music in general.”
Slender fingers traced the back of a few titles before he halfway through the bundle stopped his searching. Wrapping a hand around the sheet placed just in the middle he pulled it out and handed it towards the young musician. “Accolay’s violin concerto in A minor.” He repeated the others enquiry before placing the lid back, quickly dusting off his fingers. ’I need to clean this place again’, he mused to himself.