Koumyou doesn't try to pull away, at least, but he does bow his head again, hands fisting loosely at his sides. "But I don't know what I'm doing, and I look like a... a skeleton. A skeleton that's gone through a wood-chipper! You don't have to--"

He pauses only for half a second, to reset his anxiety just that tiny bit.

"You don't have to put up with that. To have me around. It's okay. It's really okay!"