Yay shirtlessness!

"Mm, so, kissing... I just kind of... Noticed that I wanted to, and that backlash was lying to me and I could be fairly certain so did you, and then did it? And that turned out great."

Speaking of which: Kiss!!

"And I think this basic line of logic can also be applied to other things?"

"Are you gonna tell me what other things?"

Light teasing is good and proper flirting behavior right? RIGHT??

"Things may or may not include the absence of pants and presence of hands and mouths on the places thus revealed."

"May or may not, huh. So hypothetically if I were to start taking off my pants you'd complain about that if you didn't like it, right?"

"I would. I know, I know consent is serious, I just-" He shakes his head. "Yes, I would complain if something is unwelcome. Because you would want me to, right, you wouldn't want to - have overstepped in retrospect-"

"Yes, that would suck." Pants shimmy off.

"I want to forget about worries and just-" Kiss! "Do what feels natural. I am officially - stopping worrying, flipping off backlash's lies, and kissing you instead. Until you say 'no' which seems unlikely."

"That does seem unlikely." Kiss!

Hands roaming a little bit! Mouth experimenting on other places to kiss, like neck, shoulders, and chest! And guiding! All very good things.

Guiding is really really good and mouth-to-mouth is a very high efficiency option which means it's really surprising when the neck turns out to be a contender for best thing on the menu!

Aha! Yes, excellent progress. It means he's making up for being awful to be around go away, badthought. Fill brain with kissing Haru's neck instead.

"Mmmmmthat's a good spot~"

"I noticed. I'm trying to optimize. Tell me, A-" Kiss. "Or B?" Slightly different kiss.

"B?" squeaks Haru.

"Hee. Okay. B," mostly the same kiss, "Or C?" A guess at the difference between A and B but more.

"Ohhhhhh um B still?"

"Hmm! Hmm... B, or D?" D is in a new direction. A tad more forceful and lingering.

"D is gooooooood..." Squirm.

He tightens the snugglehug momentarily in affection!

And then proceeds further through the alphabet. Around 'M' one of his hands starts trailing along Haru's abs.

"I'm tickliiiiish," squirms Haru.

-Pause. "Is this good or bad when associated with kisses?"

"It is fine if you are okay with me wiggling a lot about it!"

He continues stroking the nice abs, then. "Sounds fun. So, 'M', or 'N'-"

"AaaaaahI'm becoming skeptical you can memorize all these comparisons for later use but M!"