[ That is categorically untrue, but Maruki isn't about to get into a serious conversation when they're all just joshing around.

Also? Now that the struggle is abandoned, he's sticking his leggies under the kotatsu to get warm too. Hi! He's here too now! ]

Not a single one of my former patients has been too broken up over it, so clearly I wasn't really onto anything. [ SEE? LIGHTHEARTED. LIL. JOKES. HAHA. Time for more tea. ] And now I'm freed up for more time for things like this! We all win, don't we?