Manabu frowns a little. Jeez, this is the problem with no common currency! It just makes things weird...

"Well, ummm..." He scratches at the back of his neck, looking around...and up. "I mean, if there's more work to be done on the building, you can let me do it?" He blinks back at her. "I've been doing a lot of that for folks around town to get by, so it wouldn't be much of an issue. And, and I'm a coldblood, so I won't have to worry about freezing...and neither would you! If I was doing the work, I mean."