[Tsuzuki rubs a hand across his mouth, shoulders slumping at her reaction. Of course he'd known she'd known. He must've been hurting her all day - and that thought, too, comes with another painful spike of guilt. He should've seen where things were going before they got bad. He should've stopped Gojyo and Ayumu. But he hadn't, and now, he doesn't really know what to do.]

Yeah, I guess... yeah.

[He lets his hand fall and heads for the table, settling down at one side of it.]

It's not - I mean, there's nothing wrong, really, but I guess I need your advice.

[He's twitching. He clasps his hands together on the table, trying to keep them still, and looks down.]

When I got to the bar yesterday, uh. [Start at the beginning, he tells himself, and his fingers tighten on each other.] So, Gojyo adopted this stray dog last week, and he's been stopping some petty crime around the neighborhood lately, when he catches people trying to pull anything.