Sougo looked over at her thoughtfully then studied his frothy cocoa before responding, "I came by to see you." An awkward pause. "Before I go." Another awkward pause. "Since it might be a while." Or...permanently if things went bad. His eyes flickered toward her again to take in her reaction to the words before he did what he usually did and offered an insult so that anything nice or touching that may have come out of his mouth was instantly negated.

"After all, you're pretty fun to make fun of. You always get so loud and make the best faces. It's almost as entertaining as Hijikata-san. I won't have either of you there to kill the boredom..." there was a thoughtful pause. "But I think Katsura's going so I can always target him. Ah. And by the way, Lucy -- I won our little bet."