#HE WILL!!! GGFHFH WHILE ALSO BEING VERY SCARED!!!!

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Shuichi is frantically waving his hands while baking up just a bit. Oh he really hit a sore spot...! "N-Nonono, I-I don't blame you at all! You were there for so long, i-it's natural you wouldn't know!" He's nodding his head furiously in agreement about the 'school ID' part! "Y-Yes!! Exactly!! I'm sorry for being so insensitiveee!!!"

Yes, Naoki was still very much in every way, 18 in everything but 'true' age. If Shuichi didn't know he was mentally much older, he would have never been able to tell, either! Though for Naoki's sake, he was just going to act like he still never knew that fact in the first place.. Never did he think that this fearsome king of demons, could have his super sensitive side, too..!

"Th-Thank you very much...." For sparing him, if not holding back a yelp at that threat. He's seen the way Naoki can literally punch demons out of existence with just a mere punch. He does not want to imagine the kind of damage he could with a throw loop! If he would even survive that, that is...!!! "O-Oh nononono, th-that's not necessary!!! I'll never give you a funny look ever again!!!! I promise!!!"

His free hand against his own chest, he swears he almost had like three heart attacks just now!! A very angry Naoki... is a very scary one...!!! Now, he watches him slowly type out his message, only being able to imagine it must be to type with claws... Once he got a notification on his phone, Shuichi checks it. "Nice job, I got..." Then he reads what it says... "... I-It!" ("O-Oh god.. He is really, really mad at me. Naoki-kun I'm so sorry, Please forgive me....!!!")

He very quickly types back: 'Yes that's right!! 🙇🙇🙇.' So he can also get a notification on his phone, and also reassuring Naoki that he is, indeed, forever 18. He feels so bad for teasing him in his head... For now, he'd better help him get his mind off that and call him down! And truly only think of Naoki as 18!! "A... As you see, whenever you send or receive a message, you get it pretty much right away. Very convenient, right? Especially whenever you don't have the time to make a call."

"I knew what you were thinkin' about!! Can you blame me for not knowin' this shit!? I was livin' in hell for years! Plus I ain't that old! I still qualify for a student discount if I show my school id!!!"

To be fair, Naoki was.... a former delinquent. Give him a weird look and you'll be speaking to the end of his fist. But he can't beat up Shuichi up-- He was his only hope! And the fact he still had his old student id from 20 years ago and he got discounts (when he hid his tattoos and horn of course!)--- Well, it was proof he was still young at heart!! Just.... ignore his other old ids...that show his birth year.

"I'll let you off the hook for now-- Since you're helping me with this. But look at me funny again and I'm putin' you in a throw loop."

And so he receives the message! Typing a message.... Ah geez! And he thought typing on a flip-phone with claws was hard. Naoki... types rather slow on the touch screen -- But he manages to get a message across; 'I'm forever 18.'

A common quote used by.... older women who refuse to acknowledge their real age. In anime and dramas.... Yeah, he was still pretty pissed about the potential thought of Shuichi thinking about how old Naoki was.