"Hakkai isn't Axel-sama." The words come out just a little faster than Chikusa usually speaks, although most might not normally see it as being particularly faster than normal people speak. Chikusa pauses, lips drawn together thinly, before he starts to speak again.

"I do like him.... but I don't like things he does sometimes." Especially now that the two of them are his shinki, and his actions affect them so much more.