"I want to live in a world where it's not a fucking international incident that someone from Kokonoe is dating an omega."

"Not just someone, it's you and the demon omega from Shikiri. When Tōta got an omega girlfriend—"

"Well he definitely thinks omegas are just sex toys, I'm so goddamn sad for his girlfriend."

"By all appearances she agrees..."

"That makes it worse. You see how that makes it worse, right?"

"I'm not kinkshaming."

"It's—I mean I guess maybe she does kink on it but it's a whole society thing. Omegas are people, and people aren't toys."

"I think this might be the hundredth time we've had this conversation," observes Subaru.

"It just keeps coming up."

"It's Kokonoe High."

"Well I'm gonna fix it."

"The school?"

"The damn world. ...but probably starting with the school. I am the Kokonoe heir."

"You think your father's actually gonna let you touch the school before he's dead?"

"I'll finagle something. He's very preoccupied with his image—"

"Like father, like son..." murmurs Subaru.

"Okay first of all how dare you."

"I'm not wrong."

"But you don't have to say it."

Subaru just offers Tōkan a cheeky grin.

Which he has to respond to with a kiss that makes Subaru squeak. Tōkan feels satisfied enough that he continues. "Anyway, he needs his heir to inherit something, and I'm pretty sure he's not even trying for another one. It would not be like him to cheat on his wife or even get a kid on the side with her consent, I existed already before they got married is the only reason she tolerates me, and she doesn't want to have any kids of her own. Plus she's getting old.

"So the old man's stuck with me, and even if I'll forever be a brat in his eyes it'll still be better if I have something to my name."

"The school's kind of important though."

"Yeah but he hates it. He has no patience for teenagers and no real training as a teacher or anything like that; he went to business school. He'll be happy to offload it onto me if I frame it the right way."

"Well good luck with that. Your father's right, managing a school does sound like a nightmare."

"This stupid goddamn world is a nightmare."