Truthfully, whenever he tried to give any type of compliment that wasn't sincere.... it went very badly. It sounded awkward and forced and usually just made people uncomfortable. Which was why he had stopped his prior experiments' on flirting, chalking it up to him just being bad at it. So everything he said currently, was meant sincerely. One of a kind certainly sounded more on par, and he laughed a bit. "I guess I do have that going for me."

Uhhhhh was it weird to have asked? The widening of her eyes made him wonder if he'd made a mistake. But... she was agreeing, so he supposed they did have like... an actual date now. Which who knew how it would go but... it didn't hurt to get to know his classmates on one on one settings either right? Not that he agreed with the idea of like a 'serial dater' type of thing but... this was a good start. And they got along well. "Well, cool! Next weekend?" When she paused and looked down, his eyes traveled too and blinked seeing the vines wrapped around her legs.

Which led him to then look at his own too and see them loosely around his own leg. It was not unsurprising he hadn't felt that. While Val cast diffindo at the ones on her legs, he attempted to pull out his own - carefully. "The last time I had a run in with these things they decided Aries and I should be pals or something." He was hopeful this was not about to be a repeat. He and Val had certainly had a share of awkward encounter already without adding the vines trying to 101 Dalmations them.