Dragon passes his fingers over his tilted up mouth, a mimicry of Haruto's mannerism. "I am neither a liar nor any kind of actor, Kousuke Nitoh," he says, "unlike Haruto Souma, I gain nothing from falsehoods, least of all with you."

He crosses his arms. "Your give-and-take goes both ways," he says, tired of Nitoh's dense misunderstandings, and flickers away, replaced by the long sinuous form of his regular body, flying low toward Nitoh.