"I'm perfectly willing to get up to trouble with almost anyone," Koumyou clarifies for Buttercup, "but I'm aware I'm hard to really get to know."

He keeps everyone at a distance. Usually.

Not even intentionally, anymore, just by default.

"Next time we have robots to smush, you're invited," he tells Devero. "Some of them even floated when we threw them in the river. For at least a little while."