He didn't say anything in response because he had nothing positive to say. And weirdly that bothered him because normally Sougo thrived on bringing the negative things to light.

So he chose to initiate a topic change without necessarily using words, lifting his head when her chaste kiss came and intercepting her lips with his own. The hand holding her necklace allowed the chain to slip from his fingers so they could tuck in her hair instead, drawing her close to him like this was some cheesy, shoujo manga where the world around them stopped for a few moments just because they were kissing.

Of course, the moment didn't last long because the world and danger didn't stop around them. There was suddenly a loud bang against the door that jolted his back and caused his attention to quickly snap toward it. His eyes narrowed and he grabbed for his sword again. "Lucy, help me up. We need to pull some furniture over and block off the door."

And he needed to somehow find strength to do this since he couldn't seem to pull off standing on his own. Shit! This was the worst time for fatigue to make him useless.