Is that worse or better as a reason for it? He's not sure, and briefly he scrunches his nose as he thinks it over - and blinks, a little surprised at the admission.

"I've seen worse," Rokuta says, voice softer now; this wasn't the place or the situation he'd have thought to be reminded of Atsuyu, "at least you're self-aware." And trying to be better, he thinks, but, with a cocked head and a side-long glance up at her, he doesn't add that.

"Can't exactly be unhappy when you used it to help me, right?"