(flashback)

****/ "Bedroom. Now."

"I've never gone about this with a man, Taishou. Are you sure?"

"Hell yeah and you had better stuff that book away or else I'll take you now...on the other hand, maybe that wouldn't be so bad..."

"Kenren, wait I- mmph...Why must...must...oh god...why must you be so...insistent?"

"I. Want. You. Now. Care to have me elaborate, or shall we continue, eh?

"Continue."

All either of them remembered was that at that point, they were basically ravaging each other, but clear at the start...Tenpou's condition...was that there were no promises between them. /*****

But still... If only...Those were the only reasons he had. The words 'I want you to be mine and only mine' wouldn't have sufficed for the marshal. Never.

"Then what?"