[He likes to show off when he knows he's guaranteed to look good! He doesn't know yet if he'll get too exhausted from using the magic and beef it part way through and that's not at all the look he wants to have in front of his senapi! Or any girl, really.]

[But then she has to go and offer him the out and it comes just too close to bruising his masculinity. So, like an idiot, he backpedals.]

No, no, I can do it! I wouldn't dare get in the way of good science.

[He hops on the balls of his feet a couple times then turns in the direction of the storefront she had shown him on her map.]

On your mark, senpai.