"Me too. We'll kick this thing's ass, yeah?" It wouldn't be too much longer now. By current estimates, the next Friday would come in just a few weeks. He had to keep training up in his Asterisks... the campers that lost their lives would get their payback.

But with that set in stone and the ease on his mind from coming clean about, well, everything lately, Naoto had a funny way of catching him off guard.

Or maybe he needed the chuckle that softened the hard lines of his face. He had to imagine Naoto making like a starfish and claiming the entirety of the mattress in the name of all Shirogane and couldn't handle it. It had even left him feeling a little less nervous about being so damn close by.

"Damn, maybe-... ah, f-forget it. Jus' don't roll off the bed."