[He laughs, hollowly, then.]

Eluvio sucked. I think even Karamatsu would prefer my shitty attitude of before if it meant we could have skipped that.

[He curls up further still.]

...and, I mean. I got a lot closer to asking him to stay home and he still left, the same night you did, so. I don't know that we're any closer at all.

[He licks his lips, laughing suddenly to try and diffuse the topic and move away from it.]

But-- hey, I deserve that. Being an ass to him for so long, I gotta take a couple rebuttals.

[But he certainly won't take them well.]