[Tenka just snorts softly. He's just as important as his little brothers? That's impossible - but maybe it's part of the fact that Tenka never quite manages to see himself clearly. Rather, his little brothers are the most important people in his world, in this world even without them - of any world. It's his job to protect them, whether it's by coming up with plans or shielding them with his own body.

He will never be as important and he never wants to be that important.

But selfish? He can take that. It's not the first time he's been called selfish. Sousei, his little brothers, even Shirasu accused him of the same thing. With that level of consensus, it has to be true.

Instead, he just shakes his head fondly as he recalls-]

Shirasu used to ask me to give him orders before. Something about how Fuuma can't live without direction and how freedom is hell - but I never agreed to it. But at the very least, he'd always listen to what I said and did what I asked from him as a friend.

[ . . . Tenka just shrugs and musters up a smile.]

I'll try that again here. After all, I did say that anyone who touches my partner is gonna get a good punch in the face from me.

[He's not going to make this request just from Sousei - Tenka's going to be selfish enough to ask Shirasu for the same thing. Because life is hard when the two people who mean so much to him are naturally at odds.]