[There's something that's been eating him alive this entire time ever since Shido's palace, but he didn't really have the gall to ask anyone else. Maybe it was one of those psychosomatic things where if you think something should be the way it is, it just sort of pans out like that. So, when Akira is safely planted on his shoulder and has a better vantage point of the world of humans, he'll suck down on his bottom lip and just. He'll go for it.]

Dude, now that you're a mouse and all.

[It's really important! He swears.]

Did you, like, get this super strong urge to eat cheese? 'Cause when we got back that night, I totally devoured an entire can of cheese whiz when I got home.

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