While it's no small measure of embarrassing to have his bad health pointed out by Shou, even in a lightly teasing manner he's grown more used to in his time knowing the vampire, he can't exactly argue the point that he and Tony both chronically look like they need a little bit of feeding up.

"I support this," he says quietly at Tony's suggestion as Hajime stands to leave. "Anything to make you safer in the long run... it sounds like whatever you're echoing back ensues a lot of danger, and it's better to be prepared and capable in every possible way."