Dryly, Hakkai murmured, "I'm afraid you're wrong there." He'd rather not fight Hibari over tossing around words like friend again, but as for none of you would care...

Well, if that was what Hibari preferred to believe, Hakkai doubted he'd be able to talk the boy out of it. He still found himself hoping that Hibari's stubborness, this time, wouldn't literally get him killed.