[ Is he like Babo Kim who never went to school and thus Ayabe can't be disappointed in him for not being able to do something simple like tell time... Every day Ayabe lowers his standards for people. ]

It's around 12:25. Half past noon. See the small hand? That's the hour hand, pointing to the twelve. The longer hand is the minute hand... There are sixty minutes in an hour, so the five means it's five twelfths of an hour, or twenty-five. Does this make sense?