"R-run away or die," says Ijichi, looking down at Gojō's shoes—he can't quite meet the man's blindfolded eyes, yet, not so soon, not at the morgue with the body of his student right there. "I warned them that fighting was absolutely not an option."
"So this really shouldn't come as a surprise!" She pats Akiho on the back with a force that almost makes the girl trip. "Keep having this kind of reaction to teasing and I'm including this as part of training. But today I will be merciful. Maybe." She winks. "Or maybe I'm waiting until you're not expecting me. On to business!"
Training does, eventually, conclude.
"So, I don't know about you, but I have some errands to run," announces Akiho, matter-of-factly.
"Oh? ...do you want company? I was thinking, Sensei never did take you on that tour of Tokyo, so maybe," blush blush blush, "maybe I could."
"Oh!" Well now it's her turn to blush, a little. "... Yes, sure. I'd love company. But I promise you don't need to hang around with me as I'm trawling through the makeup aisle."
"I, I don't need to if you don't want me to, just thought I'd offer. And, uh, I'll need to plan a proper tour for you, so that shouldn't be tonight."
"Awww." She takes his hand and kisses it, because he is so cute. "Yes, that's fair. Boring errand run and fun date can stay separate and not comingle. But that's very sweet, and I'm excited already. Even if your plan is just to go park in Akihabara."
"Coolest place is with you," she says, and then she has to immediately flee because that was the sappiest thing she's ever said aaaa someone help her.
Well he will just smile happily to himself here and maybe hum a little tune as he goes back to his room.
...scratch that tune thing he cannot sing and it's kind of embarrassing let's put on the cool and aloof persona back on.
In she comes, clearly trying to get out of the hallway as quickly as possible. She is not looking in a very specific direction that may or may not contain what was once Itadori's room, nope, there is none of that.
But she does go for immediate snuggles once she's in and has set down her purse, though. Snuggles that are not hiding from her feelings, nope, there is none of that.
"No," she agrees, softly. "It's mostly fine by now, I just. There was a sale on shonen manga at one of the stores I went to, and. For some reason that hit me pretty hard."
Inori nods and hugs her closer. "Sometimes something reminds me of... of anime things, stories. And. Yeah."
"Yeah," she agrees. And leans on him.
"... I feel so incredibly guilty," she admits, very softly. With a little sniffle. "I know survivor's guilt is a thing but mostly it's not even that I survived and he didn't it's that. I knew better and went in anyway and he was new at everything and." Sniffle.
"...I didn't. Know better. And I should have. Sensei is always talking about the higher ups being terrible and... I didn't think they'd actually try to kill us. Him."
"Mmm," she agrees. "Mom told me to watch myself, and that sorcerer society was a den of vipers that she had been more than happy to escape from. But it didn't quite seem real until it happened."
"How very us versus them. I can't imagine they have space to be anything else. I almost went to Kyoto, remember."
"Yeah. Me too." Sigh. Lean.
".... Is it terrible if I ask you to please distract me from the bad feelings?"