Gen was blushing brilliantly all over again, and actually hid his face in his sleeve for a moment, pretending to fix his hair.

It was dumb. Senku didn't really like people like that, which was fine. They had an entire conversation just now about how that was fine. And Gen wasn't lying about that.

"We'll just need to keep doing things to make science happy!" Gen said, light and there's not an embarrassed wobble to his voice at all, of course not.