One more time, his lips curl up into something resembling the facade of a smug grin (because anyone who knows Shinjiro would know what a thin pretense smug really is with him--) and he tilts his head just enough to lightly knock into where Akihiko's resting at his shoulder. "Course it'd work. I've got a pretty damn punchable nose, and you do your best talking through your fists."
A bit of a strange summary of their friendship, but not entirely wrong.
And he knows better than to press when Akihiko's face drains to an even paler shade, something almost ghostly at whatever memory is flooding up behind those steely eyes. Instead he's just quiet for a moment, letting the silence speak for itself. (And trying not to scoff out an amused noise at the idea of Akihiko ended up tied around a chair leg or something. Or closing his tail in a door. Or-- actually, all of these things are really sad now that he actually thinks about it.
Shit. Now he feels kind of bad. At least he's not the type to overtly express it.)
"Hm?" His head tilts, drawing back out of his thoughts as Akihiko speaks again. "I mean... yeah? Ain't like it's all that important." it being his friends missing dick, of course, but he's going to be nice and not say it outright outloud. As tactless as he is, he knows better than to push too far. "Or is it something you're hung up on?"
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A bit of a strange summary of their friendship, but not entirely wrong.
And he knows better than to press when Akihiko's face drains to an even paler shade, something almost ghostly at whatever memory is flooding up behind those steely eyes. Instead he's just quiet for a moment, letting the silence speak for itself. (And trying not to scoff out an amused noise at the idea of Akihiko ended up tied around a chair leg or something. Or closing his tail in a door. Or-- actually, all of these things are really sad now that he actually thinks about it.
Shit. Now he feels kind of bad. At least he's not the type to overtly express it.)
"Hm?" His head tilts, drawing back out of his thoughts as Akihiko speaks again. "I mean... yeah? Ain't like it's all that important." it being his friends missing dick, of course, but he's going to be nice and not say it outright outloud. As tactless as he is, he knows better than to push too far. "Or is it something you're hung up on?"