He’s trying, all right? Seeing the good in people isn’t exactly Jakob’s forte!! But Add barges in before Jakob can make a suitable comeback, and at Taro’s horrified stare and that utterly disastrous opener, all he can really manage is a facepalm.

He’s failed to keep Add in line again. And that’s like, the foremost of his duties as shinki by this point.

“Please, just…come with us for a moment,” he says at last, nodding at the dumbstruck Taro. The therapist, catching on to his patient’s silence, starts to look concerned, and asks Taro if he’s all right.

To which Taro can only reply, “It’s them again!” He raises a finger at the offending divinities. “Please! C—Can’t you see them? They’re right there!”