—— His smiles, though weak, are still sincere as he chuckles gently. He pulls the other close, no matter how much it hurts him to do so. “I know — I’m sorry.” He wants to cry, but he’s trying his hardest not to. He won’t show weakness to anyone, especially him. “— do you think, Shinra would take me in?”

Mikado knows that only Masaomi would be smiling at a time like this, and he both loves him and thinks that he’s an idiot for it. Such an idiot, he thinks. “Of course he would,” he says, and he holds on just a little bit tighter, if it’s even possible. “He’s not going to turn anyone away.”
—-Well, he has a point there, he really does. He walks into trouble a lot, and trouble tends to corner him and drive him...