Shunsui blinked at Octavia and her very very serious look, his shoulders maybe slowly creeping up a little under it, because this was starting to feel like an awful lot of responsibility, and he wasn't too good with responsibility.

But then his eyes drifted downward, toward his feet, which were clad in wooden geta sandals, which he now dutifully bent over to slip off and hold in his hands.

"Yes," he assured her now with a nod of a bit more confidence.

...although, really, Shunsui, it probably was not the potential noise of your geta on cobblestones that would be the issue here.

But, like the narrative said, he would try!