He chuckles, mostly at himself. "I suppose it wasn't. It's just... important to me, to do this." But Koumyou knows that. And it's not like they don't have all the time in the world to habituate him to the artifact's absurd power, now is it?

--Okay, now he's chuckling at Koumyou, too. "I don't think I'm there yet," he says, his voice gentle. "And I'd hate to ruin things if I get all... all spooked because of something the sutra does."

He bends down and steals a kiss from those smiling lips, but only a very brief, chaste one. "Rain check?" he says. "Let me get a few more therapy sessions in before we try to sutra-fuck."