Thread:ChocolateShortcake/@comment-32585685-20170715203401/@comment-32585685-20170723203408

Norio grins as she confirms his guess.

The next question catches him completely unprepared and he freezes as his mind struggles to work out how to respond.

''I can't possibly answer that honestly, even though the answer is literally standing right in front of me, can I? It's so soon, I need time to think about this, I need to work everything out, I can't just say that can I? She'll hate me! I bet she hates me! I bet I'm taking so long thinking about this she's going to think I'm offended or something! She's looking right at me! The response window in this chat game is going to time out and she's going to be mad! Argh, say something, baka!''

"Ahaha... I'm... I need..."

''Say something coherent, bakamono! Buy some time at least!''

"Um, do you?"

(it's like you're trying to break Norio in every thread! :D

but that... that may make things a lot worse for Kiyotaka, depending on how things work out)