Kaito blinked. Wait, what? Hakuba looked so pitiful right now. If it was about that question of why he wasn’t currently languishing in a jail cell, Kaito really would like to know what was going on. “Why’re you apologizing?”
“I don’t… I can’t…"
Hakuba chewed on his lip. It bothered him that he didn’t have an adequate answer for the proverbial elephant in the room. But more than that, it bothered him that he’d managed to upset Kaito. After his more recent interactions with Hattori, the trend of confrontation was difficult to ignore. Perhaps he was the problem, not others.
Frustrated, he brought a hand to his face and rubbed the bridge of his nose between his eyes.
"It makes sense that you would deny it, even to me, if it were true. I should stop badgering you about it. I’m… sorry that I’ve been… difficult."