She was about as confident in that as he was, it seemed. He still had a handful of reservations, but everything had turned out well, hadn't it?
Ah, but the Kiriko he knew was always there, just beneath the surface. Her change of expression wasn't particularly subtle, though it might have been to him with his limited people experience in prior years. These days, though, he recognized it as an offensive stance.
Even now, with them on something resembling better terms, there was a definite wall between them, one erected of her own choosing.
"Easy, easy," he replied, one hand held up in surrender. "I've been in that situation too, you know. A few times. You were a lot more outwardly calm about it than I ever could have been."
In and of itself that probably said more about Keiichi than he really liked to think about.