"If Ken and I were connected like that, it would be ideal," Chikusa says, aggressively ignoring any and every objection to his previous statements. Sorry, what was that? You want him to stop having weird co-dependence issues in public? Good luck stopping him. "I'm sure he'd prefer it too. He's already collared."

Admittedly, it's to hide the kanji of his two names, but Chikusa is well aware of how that would look to other people.