Hakkyuu may not know that Aurus was assessing everything he did, he was aware of Aurus' sustained attention on him, which he initially opted to ignore; he had more important things to focus on.

Aurus would therefore find that Hakkyuu had a surprising amount of patience, at least when it came to the cactus fruit. He worked diligently at the fruit with his loyal, though kind-of-dull knife in silence except for the soft creaking sounds of the thick skin slowly slipping further and further, until the creak became a crack and he could twist the blade sharply to split the fruit down the middle. He huffed, resting the knife on his knee for a moment as he took each half of the fruit in either hand to pry it apart fully.

It wasn't super neat, and he clearly wasn't going to be invited to work at a gourmet restaurant in Lion's Arch any time soon, but he got in and that's a start. He also doesn't try and shove the halved fruit into his mouth, instead using the knife to slice a section of flesh out from as close to the rind as possible.

As he lifted the slice of fruit to his mouth and started to chew, he finally lifted his eyes to set a hard stare on Aurus.

"What?"