[ Honesty is always the thing that resonates with him. Doesn't have to be complicated. Doesn't even have to be nice. It's easier to digest that way, to see the baseline. Mikazuki gets a sense for it like this. Standing out in the open but never being truly free of that impulse to know what, and who, is around him. Duo beats him to the punch, and he doesn't bother following the example. ]

Fighting wasn't like that for us. It didn't matter if we could say things like that about it in the end. Only that it took us where we wanted to go.

[ Maybe it's the literal only thing Mikazuki knows how to do, but there's no fanfare in it, no glory to blow smoke all over.

By standing here, it's pretty evident. It didn't get them much of anywhere familiar. ]