[ Had Kouta asked her that question decades ago, Setsura might have scolded him. In fact, she did, and on multiple occasions. Akemi, too, because there was work to be done. They had things to accomplish and when she went in, she went in hard in pursuit of her goals, which she took seriously. That's no less true now, but things are a little different. The board has changed, for one, expanded. Kouta is retired. Akemi is in Heaven and while some part of her still fiends after the kingship of Tamamura -- it's the principle of the matter, really, she's mindful of the empire she's built since her arrival in Tokyo between her various contacts and connections as she's observed the city's growth. Tokyo is her city and every Hand this side of the Pacific knows it or learns quickly.
Still, like attracts like and while she's tended to act to temper present company first and foremost, but especially in their younger years when Kouta himself was more impetuous, there's no denying the way her heart swelled when he asks that sort of thing, no the fact that she had caved every now and again between him and Akemi pressing. If anything, it's got worse when she settled and even worse still since his return. She cracks her eyes open now and turns a fond smile on him, wondering that he doesn't feel it through her chest. ]
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Still, like attracts like and while she's tended to act to temper present company first and foremost, but especially in their younger years when Kouta himself was more impetuous, there's no denying the way her heart swelled when he asks that sort of thing, no the fact that she had caved every now and again between him and Akemi pressing. If anything, it's got worse when she settled and even worse still since his return. She cracks her eyes open now and turns a fond smile on him, wondering that he doesn't feel it through her chest. ]
Why? Did you have something in mind?