Hakkai picks up the bottle. It's warm, but he doesn't care; he takes a long swig himself, sets it down, and remarks, "It's really not."

Because what else did this conversation need? When it started with Gojyo wanting to interrogate him about his past as a god, running so close up to the dangerous line of his past that Hakkai's watched the topic blight him before, and when it's going to have to involve Hakkai naming him, and when Hakkai doesn't even have a hint of what prompted this.

That, he supposes, is going to blow up in his face later. Gojyo bearing a youkai mark... what does that mean, here? That it's developed, sometime between now and the last time Hakkai saw his neck? How much are shinki memories altered, even the ones they regain, even the ones their gods see-- he cuts himself off before the thoughts can spiral off into full-blown conspiracy theories, and takes another swing of warm beer before he looks up at Gojyo again.

"...but I can't do anything about it. Do you still want to hear about your time as a god?"