"Dinner with no awkward announcements."

Several girls swarm around Bun at dinner and gaze at him adoringly while playing with their hair and tugging down their shirts. 

... it's not that he hasn't had this problem before, it's just usually not this. Intense. Concentrated.

Ignoring this is so much better than the rat conversation.

How are they finding the classes so far? He's very interested in being the best,  most platonic, teacher ever.

He's so INTERESTING. And SMART. They think ethics is VERY IMPORTANT. They are definitely going to do all that stuff with the consent and the not torturing people. Yes. 

... there are worse things than people being ethical because of a crush?

Though still, why is this? Is he the person with the best teeth in the kingdom.

Ethics is great, and they are very encouraged to keep being ethical!

"It's wrong to torture rats! Because that makes you more likely to think it's okay to torture humans," says Minelia, who got some information from Quina and is making Extrapolations. 

"Ideally you shouldn't, but it's... not really that big of a big deal." Sorry, rats who turn out to be automata.

Oh no. She is going to get a bad grade in being Good. What are the rules here. 

"Yeah, like, you wouldn't want to make a child die because you were too squeamish to kill a rat. I bet not being squeanish is a huge part of medical ethics."

"... that really does not come up all that much?"

"Well, you don't want to be grossed out by people's insides, or afraid to hurt them is it's the right thing to do, or unwilling to put someone in quarantine if they're sad."

"That does come up! Just not... rat killing, specifically." Unless you count the plague, but we are not covering the plague right now.

"If you're weak and pathetic you'd be a terrible doctor."

"But you can always get stronger." He will wait at least six months before breaking his students.

Or you can get executed, Sallina doesn't say, because she is pretty sure that's Evil. 

After dinner, Bun is met by a very excited small child. 

"Hello! When are we going to start learning real medicine?"

Does comparing them to a precocious ten year old count as breaking them? "In the next few days. Then we'll probably get distracted from it again."

"Why? I want to learn real medicine!"

"Because we need to learn the things so we can use that to discover more real medicine."

"Oh. Well. If it's about bodies it's okay. Ethics is DUMB."

Oh, small children. "It will be about bodies and science."

"What's a science."

"It's a process of learning new things."

"Like... math problems?"

He looks at her conspiratorially. "Like turning anything into a math problem."