Excuse you. I work hard at the host club, you know. [Because it does take some effort to keep up the act when Matoba arrives, though maybe working "hard" is a bit of a stretch. It's always come easy to him, the pretending.] But I suppose she values this face of mine more than anything else.

[He's wondered, sometimes. If his abilities were still limited for a reason. If there was something about him not giving it his all that caused her to hold back his techniques in exchange. Or if it was truly just more profitable to have the actor instead of the exorcist.

He doesn't have to ask the same question of Matoba. Like always, Seiji was surely giving his all to the clan.]

...Does the Daitengu meet with you? When they return something to you.