"Grab him a drink," Inori tells Subaru. "And a straw."

Oh so Subaru can't tell him what to do but he can tell Subaru what to do, is that how it is?

...somehow he feels like in Inori's twisted sideways logic this might not be an inconsistency.

Also he doesn't really mind. So up he gets.

"You know, I was just as hurt that time the eight kids ambushed us."

"But I wasn't pampering you then. Now I am."

"Starting to look like you're just bossing me around."

"Bossing you around so you don't do things."

"Why didn't you take me to the hospital last time, then?"

"No rib bruises."

"...that, specifically?"

Inori rolls his eyes. "Stuff like that. You know what I mean."

Here's his drink.

"You get into a lot of fights?"

"You ask as many stupid questions as he does."

"That was not—whatever. What I meant to ask is, how come you do that? I mean I get the stuff about rapist alphas, but Tōkan mentioned there were betas in that group, too."

"Sometimes they piss me off, too."

"In a way where you beat them up?"

"It's not just shitty alphas who look down on omegas," he spells out slowly.

...Subaru knew that but for some reason he didn't really know that. "That mindset is pretty pervasive, huh?"

Tōkan snorts mirthlessly. "The other kids around me when I was growing up used to say they couldn't play with me because I was an alpha and was above them. The betas and the omegas. No shit it's pervasive."

"This may kinda be a stupid question but... is it that way in the West, too? Like outside Japan and stuff."

"Not exactly the same. America is a lot less hierarchical than us so the way it presents there is less about how alphas are definitely above betas who are definitely above omegas and more about... Well, the people who try to appeal to the Western progressives talk about specialisation of labour, the people who don't talk about how an omega's place is in the kitchen. They don't have nearly as much in the sense of alphas only being with alphas, though, at least not in the official discourse. Even though American politicians—especially but not exclusively right-wing ones—mysteriously almost all come from all-alpha families, they don't actually say that this is a good thing in public. And the left-wings ones even say it's bad and publicly act ashamed of it." Tōkan snorts again. "But there's still gender bullshit everywhere, in general, yes."

"...how'd you know all of that?"

"The internet."

"...hm."

By which he means, "of course the rich boy speaks English", which he doesn't want to say because he is allergic to ever saying something that sounds stupid to him. In that way Inori is consistent.

He is also consistently hungry and will eat anything the other two don't.