Even at his best, Kaoru wasn't really a team player, and if there was any way he could sort of secretly sort of help and not actually getting clocked by someone while doing it, he would absolutely go for it.

In this case, after the snow began to fall, he'd go outside to collect a small pile of it. If he was wrong, whatever. He'd come back for the damp basket later, so stop judging him Professor Layton.

He'd better be right, though. It was cold out here, goddammit.