A/N: This is something like a continuation from 'Praised' and maybe a bit from 'Endless Lectures' but can be read as a standalone just in case there are some people who decided in this one-shot book, they can jump around wily-nily. Also, I have decidedly hate hell dorm (affectionate lie), coz they made me go into Reichi fantasies and after that one chapter in Sandstorm Enstars... I feel nuts. Rivalry go off! Battling each other with lives on the line that they could understand each other with their eyes? Something like that during the War??? No, not getting over it. Still love Wataei but Reichi dynamic be sending me. And also, this confrontation that led to that sentence somehow happened in the dorm, like what if Aira walked in??? I'm already like, the potential bro. THE POTENTIAL. Or more like how did Aira keep his idol love innocence this whole time especially rooming with them? Like, that's the most confusing part of this whole thing. It's mind boggling! Thanks to that, however, I have reawakened my love to write more Aira stories. Unfortunately for that, I am worried as heck that I will never do Rei and Eichi justice anymore T_T Well, the answer for all of that is 'Screw it, I'm just writing one-shots and being funny and they never had to go anywhere in the first place. That was what this collection was for anyway. Brainrotting! Screw being canon and what is a timeline anyway T_T'

"A musical?" Anzu asked, looking at the surprising combination of Eichi, Rei and Aira who were offering this proposal. Aira couldn't blame her surprise, since other than being roommates, what connection do they really have together to even plan and suggest things like this?

Although the real story was that everything was Aira's idea and Eichi and Rei were basically there to encourage him and made sure he pull through with this proposal. For some reason, they really want to see Keito in priest garments or maybe something else. That's how he told the story of how he came to offer the musical proposal to Anzu.

"... It seems feasible," Anzu said, as she had skimmed over the contents. The fact that she hadn't outright rejected it calmed Aira's heart.

Although she looked at everyone, she had narrowed down to Eichi as she said, "But there is still many things to consider, such as..."

Just because the musical was Aira's idea doesn't mean he would understand the business aspect of it all. He was  content to let Eichi take the reins of the discussion, from budget to people with Rei chipping in. Aira only spoke when it came to fine tuning the ideas, but the whole discussion seemed smooth sailing at the very least.

"So the first one you want to do is 'Flying with Black And White Wings'? The story where Tenshouin-senpai is an angel, Sakuma-senpai is a demon, Hasumi-senpai is a priest and Hibiki-senpai is a mage?" Anzu asked, as Eichi and Rei vigorously nodded in agreement. Aira just smiled, feeling like the title needed work although he knew it was a placeholder until he found something better for the idea he was weaving.

"Although the costumes are doable, the story could use more polish... not that it's bad Shiratori-kun, but it will still need a whole lot of edits," Anzu said, as Aira nodded to the tentative criticism, not close to offended when it was practically true.  In the corner of his eye, he noticed Rei and Eichi giving each other knowing glances as Eichi once again spoke up as if he were the mastermind for this upcoming scheme.

Co-mastermind, since Rei was also into it fervently and Aira was just letting this happen. To be honest, even if it was from his silly ideas, he was not opposed to making the musical a reality. Imagine idols going into costumes and performing Lives in the form of a story. Aira would look forward to anything the idols give out, and this wasn't an exception whatsoever.

"Oh, the three of us have already thought about the story. Do you recognize this, Producer-san?" Eichi asked, taking out the Mizuhanome-sensei manga that had been among the things pushing Aira into submitting his musical ideas to Anzu.

Anzu gasped, as she almost stuttered, "Is- Is this...?"

"Yes, a Mizuhanome-sensei work. Fortunately for us, this had a similar storyline to Shiratori-kun's musical idea," Eichi said, handing over the manga to Anzu who pored over the work with stars in her eyes. She really was interested in the mangaka as Eichi was. Once again, it made Aira wonder who this impressive mangaka was to win the hearts of a top idol and top producer.

It had been a shame that he had surprisingly not found any record about him over the Internet but the fact that people know about him like Eichi and Anzu, was most likely through word of mouth instead of through digital footprints. But how? It was a mystery Aira wanted to solve, but yet to actually have resources for, so he had put it on hold and concentrated on the musical proposal.

"Unfortunately, Mizuhanome-sensei's story only accounted for the angel, demon and priest but still, it's a good setup for it, right?" Eichi continued, and Anzu nodded in agreement.

"Well, you have a point there, Tenshouin-senpai," Anzu said, "Still, although you and Sakuma-senpai are eager to get this musical on the road, we haven't asked for Hibiki-senpai and Hasumi-senpai's opinion about this."

"Then, why don't we visit Hasumi-kun right now?" Rei suggested quickly, "Last time I saw him, he was simply working around RythLin in his designated office. Other than paperwork, he's probably not that busy."

"And Wataru has a job outside of ES that he's currently doing, so we should go see Keito now. After all, it is killing two birds with one stone," Eichi continued, as Aira was unsurprised he knew something about Wataru's schedule as people from the same unit, especially being the leader of same unit.

As for how Rei knew about Keito's schedule, they were co-workers in the same agency so that information must be easy to get. Aira had to hide his grimace about the idea of paperwork, once again being reminded of the unrabui side of being idols. In the end, idols was something akin to a business venture and having paperwork in the forms of documents and forms to forward so that idol activities can be done since Keito was the leader of Akatsuki, it just wasn't surprising.

Pushing that aside for now, Aira wondered what Eichi meant by 'killing two birds with one stone'. After all, they were only just going to see Keito just for his thoughts about the musical and whether he wanted to bandwagon on this.

Right?

***

"Shiratori, does this mean you finally want to change dorms?" Keito asked, in a form of greeting when Aira came to his office first.

"Umm..." Aira said, unsure what to say when suddenly, Eichi and Rei were right behind Aira with Anzu bringing up the rear. While Anzu gave a warm smile towards a now shocked Keito, Eichi and Rei once again connected by some unspeakable force to unite on something (because seriously, Aira can calculate the total percentage of how much they help each other vs how much they were against each other and the results were very skewed to one side. It was a bit sad that some idols don't get along but rivalry can do that to people so it was also understandable).

Both had a frown on their faces, which seemed to go with betrayed. Rei even kicked it up a notch, faking crocodile tears. Keito was unimpressed, probably used to those duo's antics at this point. That could not be Aira, because in the short time he had been roommates with the duo, he would have reacted in some way towards Eichi and Rei. Although he understood his time with them could not be compared with Keito's absolutely longer one considering childhood friends dynamic.

It interested Aira that while Keito was childhood friends with Eichi and Rei, the latter duo weren't even connected as long as with Keito and said to only officially met at Yumenosaki Academy. Lord knows the stories being crafted about this trio, especially when ES came to be and put those three into limelight, and how much Aira had pursued them to understand ideas and headcannons that might match with his own.

So of course, Aira now comfortably in bystander position was not letting his brain cells miss a single second of idol childhood friends trope moments. Anzu similarly taken the backseat with Aira, watching the about-to-be scene quite neutrally, her body screaming 'ready to step in' when needed.

Ready to step in when?

"Oi, oi, oi," Rei let out fake tears, "What did you mean to Shiratori when you asked him he was ready to change dorms? Whatever did you think we did to our beloved kouhai that he would leave his beloved senpai like that?"

"To think that you think so badly of us that you thought Shiratori-kun would willingly leave us. After all, Shiratori-kun finds it rabui to live with us, right?"

Aira startled, both at the fact that he was addressed to prove some point and that Eichi had used his signature word. It wasn't the first time nor would it be the last but hearing someone who was technically your boss, a boss he admired to the point of starstruck, using his catchphrase was still jarring. His unit members, especially Mayoi, had use his signature word themselves in several occasions and even then, he still wasn't used to it. Maybe it was the feeling that his signature word was Aira's and Aira's alone. At the very least, it's sticking to others.

"Yes, it's always a pleasure and honor to live with you and Sakuma-senpai," Aira answered, "I feel like I learned a lot as an idol from you senpais."

Keito narrowed his eyes, disbelieving of this statement, or a variation of it that Aira had given out whenever Keito had given out similar concerns about Aira rooming with Eichi and Rei ever since joining Keito Lecture and getting to know his kouhai better. He got the feeling Keito would follow up on this, as usual but at least not now. Instead, Keito let out a weary sigh from just mere conversation dealing with Eichi and Rei before addressing to everyone at whole:

"So, what are all of you doing in my office?"

That was Anzu's cue to step in, and from there, explained Aira's musical to Keito. Keito looked briefly at Aira, then Rei and Eichi before settling on to Anzu.

"No, I will not help you," Keito answered with finality.

"What? Why?" Anzu asked, shocked at such a blunt and decisive answer.

He looked at Rei and Eichi, eyes boring on both of them much like an exasperated childhood friend (something Aira was mentally taking notes of course, as the good old childhood friend trope), before saying, "Don't think I know what you really want out of this."

"Whatever could you mean, Keito?" Eichi asked, calmly and ignoring the extremely deadpanned stare he was receiving from Keito.

"Yes, what we want out of this is to let our kouhai flourish with his talents and soar into new heights as senpai. Is there something so bad about that, Hasumi-kun?" Rei asked, patting on Aira's shoulder while similarly ignoring Keito's stare.

While startled to be put on the spot especially with Rei's hand on Aira's shoulder, he managed to maintain his cool and composure and simply looked between the trio, trying to catch up with why Keito would  refuse and what he even thought that Rei and Eichi were up to.

If Keito simply rejected because he didn't believe in an amateur's proposal, Aira would have been fine with that because the musical had been a long shot to him at the end. However, Keito stating that Rei and Eichi having ulterior motives meant it was something deeper than that.

For  a brief moment, Aira jokingly thought that Keito just didn't want to be in a priest's costume by Eichi and Rei but there's no way that it could be something that petty-

"You just want to force me into that priest costume, don't you?" Keito asked, as Aira backtracked his thoughts and swore not to even think throughout this whole conversation unless he wanted to summon the powers of Apollo. His heart couldn't take it if his thoughts had continued becoming true, with a dash of mind reading on top of it.

"And is there anything really wrong with that?" Rei asked, "After all, I will be dressed up as a demon."

"And me, an angel," Eichi said, "Why not go back to your roots, Keito?"

Keito simply stared blankly at Eichi, before he said, "I am not deserving to be a priest."

"That doesn't mean you can't act like one," Rei pressed, "Come on, Hasumi-kun. Lighten up, this will be fun."

"Whatever the reason, you will still not change my mind," Keito said firmly, as for some reason, he kept giving furtive glances at Eichi and Anzu.

While Anzu looked puzzled, Eichi suddenly wore a Cheshire grin on his face and Keito, making note of that, said, "Eichi, no."

"Tenshouin-kun, what?" Rei asked, startled by this sudden change of topic. He was not the only one, with Anzu and Aira similarly puzzled. The two childhood friends simply stared each other down, with Keito finally giving furtive glances at Rei and Aira.

Aira tilted his head, wondering what was even going on while mentally filing away the childhood tension scene between Eichi and Keito as he basked in the conversation while worrying about understanding it later.

"Eichi, yes," Eichi simply said, in response to Keito as he took out the Mizuhanome-sensei work out while Keito looked like he was about to have a heart attack.

"You... you didn't..." Keito whispered but Eichi smiled on, as if he was unaware of his childhood friend's plight.

"Well, while Shiratori-kun's design and song suggestions are great, we have all collectively agreed that the story could flourish a little more with a storyteller's touch. Luckily, I know of Mizuhanome-sensei who not only makes great art but puts out a touching story in his manga. Unfortunately, this current manga would not be enough for the musical Shiratori-kun proposed and not only that, we would have needed the mangaka's permission in the first place," Eichi said.

"That... so- You just-... Do they..." Keito said, letting out a flurry of broken sentences that do not make sense while he looked around everywhere, his eyes settling more to Aira and Rei with the former being extremely confused on what was going on now.

"Ah," Rei said, as he looked like he hit eureka in contrast to Aira's extreme confusion, "Isn't this what you meant killing two birds with one stone, Tenshouin-kun? Not only did you want to invite Hasumi-kun to the musical, you also want him to write the story... as Mizuhanome-sensei, isn't that right?"

Mizuhanome-sensei? Is Hasumi-senpai, really? The idol was secretly a mangaka as his side-job, or something like that? At first, Aira found it unbelievable, but as soon as he saw Eichi and Anzu unfazed like they know and Keito in some shock, as if this was something he wanted hidden but was surprised to get revealed out of the blue, the idol otaku was starting to give the accusation some credence.

When Keito had looked at Aira's dawning realization, he spluttered, "Wait, I am not this Mizuhanome-sensei you are talking about. It doesn't need to be a mangaka to write up a good script, right? Eichi could have wanted me to write the story as DRAMATICA's scriptwriter when I had specifically told him that I separate club activities and work."

Even when glaring daggers at Eichi who smiled like he was completely used to this, no one was really buying Keito's excuse. With two in the know, one who made the accusation confident in it and the other realizing that it was the truth from that trio's confidence about Keito's true identity, Keito really couldn't hide it any longer.

He also realized this and eventually knew his anger was no good in this situation. Instead, he let out a weary sigh and asked, "Just how many people have to know when I don't want them to? Does the whole ES know at this point?"

With this shocking confirmation, Aira now connected a ton of dots ranging from Mizuhnome-sensei with Keito from the manga that surprisingly depicts Rei, Eichi and Keito's childhood in an alternate universe setting and how much Eichi wished Mizuhanome-sensei were to pick up the pen again, meaning that Eichi wanted Keito to pick up the pen again and pursue a mangaka's dream that Keito seemingly wanted hidden.

So much potential in this revelation as Aira mentally reviewed a newly formed corkboard in his mind, now as still as a statue. Any other fan might hyperventilate or become a squealing mess at another side of their idols but luckily, Aira knew how to quietly fanboy as a statue who was not there ever since he was in the presence of idols so he could embarrass himself less in their presence.

It was a skill he especially acquired ever since rooming with Eichi and Rei and joining Pretty5 because after so much rabui things he had to witness and not wanting to sully his reputation, he learned better how to keep things down low on the outside, and think loudly on the inside. So, of course, he could only scream inwardly in delight at every revelation he was receiving now.

He was also still processing this information so he gladly remain a spectator to the incoming childhood arguments that he would never exchange front-row seats for anything.

"No, unless you want them to. I will happily-" Eichi started, mercilessly teased Keito before he was shut down with a flat look and a sharp shake of Keito's head.

Rei shrugged, "In hindsight, Mizuhanome-sensei's work felt really familiar to me and your reaction to his work seemed an obvious clue, Hasumi-kun."

"And because of you two, Shiratori-kun now knows," Keito sighed, "I trust that you will keep this secret?"

With such a heavy look from Keito, all Aira could really do was nod in agreement. Although Aira was curious why Keito wanted to keep such a secret, the atmosphere was ill suited for prying questions so all Aira could do was keep quiet.

Of course despite the ill suited atmosphere, Eichi and Rei chose to go through their objectives. Meanwhile, don't mind Aira the casual observer who chose to have so many revelations about Keito being a secret mangaka that his childhood friend and the producer admire as he still processed what felt like mind boggling information.

'This is going to my Idol Research files,' Aira thought solemnly, even when he knew that this was never going to see the light of social media. At the corner of his eye, he saw Anzu choosing a passive role in the confrontation that was going down although still looking like she would step in when needed, seeming more used to it. Considering she knew them since Yumenosaki last year, this was unsurprising.

"But still Keito, isn't it still a waste?" Eichi asked smoothly, "To not use all your talents as an idol. Especially to bring our kouhai's idea to life."

"As much as I do want to see our kouhai's growth as a senpai, I already told you no means no Eichi," Keito shot Eichi down, with an umpteenth sigh, "I don't care that it's a waste not to use all my talents for work. I chose to split my work and hobbies separately. Doing this once means breaking the boundaries I have set for myself, so I respectfully decline. And before you can say anymore, Eichi, Sakuma, get into seiza right here and now."

"Why?" Eichi asked calmly as his knees were decidedly not buckling down to the floor while still meeting Keito on the same eye level.

Huffing, he said, "You stolen one of my works again, didn't you, Eichi? How many times must you satisfy yourself until you can take no for an answer?"

Eichi hummed, but did not answer so Rei took over and asked, "So why do I have get into seiza too? I certainly did not steal anything from you, Hasumi-kun, nor did anything that would warrant this behaviour."

"Did you have to out me in front of our kouhai about being Mizuhanome-sensei when I was clearly in distressed. I do not believe for one second that was somehow not intentional. And I am free to want to lecture you both for not respectfully taking no for an answer and even-"

At that point, Aira had turned off his mind from Keito's long-winded lectures directed towards Rei and Eichi who looked as similarly turned off as him, which was surprising when the both could match up the same long monologue as Keito. Guess even for the both of them, it wasn't great being at the receiving side of it, huh?

Left to his own curiosity, there was one thing that stuck out for Aira which ate away at his curiosity. Before he lost himself and accidentally blurted anything out that the rest could hear, he focused his attention to the usual standby Anzu who watched everything almost idly with a hint... of predator eyes???

Rubbing his eyes again to make sure his vision did not impair him, he looked at Anzu closer and noticed that while the look she was giving the trio seemed sharp, it was by no means predatory. It was more like she was trying to jump at an opportunity, focus more on to Eichi than any of the other trio throughout her observation.

Eventually, she had noticed Aira staring at him and in a low voice not to disrupt Keito's lecture towards Eichi and Rei who were now on their knees that Keito somehow managed to convince them to do, she asked, "Why were you staring at me, Shiratori-kun?"

"Ah, I'm sorry, Producer-san," Aira was quick to forgive using the same low voice as Anzu, "I just couldn't help but notice that you were staring at them intently..."

"Was I that obvious?" Anzu asked a rhetorical question and without expecting an answer continued, "Well, eventually we have to get back on topic but it's nearly impossible to interrupt when Hasumi-senpai gets like this. Really, it would have been better if Tenshouin-senpai and Sakuma-senpai hadn't provoked Hasumi-senpai like that. Negotiations would have been smoother otherwise."

"Umm, are you sure about that, Producer-san?" Aira asked, having become increasingly doubtful about their chances for Keito's cooperation the more he ruthlessly lectures on towards Eichi and Rei.

"Well, he might not agree with writing the script for the story and honestly we can outsource," Anzu admitted, in defeat and disappointment before rallying once again, "But I am sure at least he would agree to the priest role. Don't worry Shiratori-kun, this is really all part of the plan. Your musical will come to light in no time."

To be honest he had no high stakes in his musical coming true if he wasn't pushed by Rei and Eichi to just try so he wasn't making this a big deal as everyone else seemed to be making it. How much of a big deal, he would only later know when Eichi had pridefully explained that he used the Mizuhanome-sensei card to throw off Keito so that while he was reluctant to play the priest role was to push Keito into being disoriented from the shock of a big secret being revealed to  choose lesser evils such as playing a role instead of writing the script that he so adamantly refused.

To be honest, Aira would later consider that as a bastard move until Eichi had reassured about how empty a threat it was and that they would never pull it off and that it was all in good fun. Aira could somehow overlook that with his immense love for idols making him unable to hate any of his celebrities in the first place or get rid of the idol worship that he still held for his own boss but it somewhat felt scary knowing these sides of Eichi. Then again, Eichi wasn't a revolutionary for nothing.

As to why even Anzu would make Aira's musical coming to life a big deal was later answered when Aira expressly asked about it.

"You shouldn't sell yourself short, Shiratori-kun. Just like Feather Touch and your own exclusive outfit, you have the creativity and imagination to make wonderful and lovely things come to life. Personally, I would look forward to working with you making Pretty5 magical girl musical come to life," Anzu answered as a dreamy sparkle entered her eyes full of desire which solidified at the next sentence, "I also loved the maid costumes you designed for their common lives."

"Eh, what?" Aira asked, before finally remembering that among his musical ideas, he had also focused on the outfits idols in his Circle would wear and Pretty5 was no brainer.

Maids at the mansion by day and magical girls saving the world at night. The premise was that Pretty5 had been hired by the master who seeks potential and power in them that they were provided with the magical girl transformation to run missions from the mansion and so forth. Mostly, he just wanted to see Pretty5 in maid costumes and magical girl costumes.

Can you blame Aira? Pretty5 is so magical girl coded and as for the maid costumes... Pretty5 is maid coded, like anyone would really buy that but Aira had really just been indulging in fantasies.

As for how Anzu could have possibly seen the idea when he was sure he simply submitted the idea about his roommates, Keito and Wataru, he would later learn after this whole thing that he had accidentally added a single piece of paper with Aira's idea compilations about costumes and possible story premise for musicals he wanted his unit, friends, roommates, Circle members and club members to star in.

There was really no curing Aira's carelessness.

Instead of Anzu reacting to Aira's surprise, she had started appraising Aira before her eyes were inevitably drawn towards the childhood trio. A mischievous smile more suited for Rinne started gracing Anzu's face before she finally said, "Tenshouin-senpai is really good at setting the stage. After this, we need to turn this around with the final push. Shiratori-kun, I'm counting on you."

"What did I get myself into?" Aira asked in near frustration.

'When did it get so complicated?' Aira thought but never said aloud. Unfortunately he knew that question would never be answered even if it was asked.

By the time that Keito finally caught his breath letting Eichi and Rei stand up to recover sore limbs, the plan was put into action.

Aira honestly wanted to interrupt him just to get over his nerves after Anzu explained the plan but she had stopped him, stating once again it was no use interrupting him when he lectures as she referenced her own experience with those lectures during Quarrel Festival last year. Although Aira wasn't there last year because that festival was not open to public, he had heard rumors nearing to urban legends about idols wearing loincloth and carrying around portable shrines. Anzu did confirm such a thing did exist when ALKALOID had been discussing about the project that would later be Feather Touch and Quarrel Festival which happened at last year's summer would be the perfect time for the loincloth edition Live.

Yeah, putting those pieces together although he could be wrong, with the no-nonsense Keito, he could imagine the lecture that came after trying to produce something like that although he personally would not mind the loincloth. Think about the fanservice!

Back to the plan, it started when Keito rounded to Aira and said to him, "Shiratori, I know you still don't want to change rooms but I  sincerely hope that you don't get influenced by my incorrigible childhood friends here."

"That is so rude, Keito," Eichi said, whining as he continued rubbing his legs and testing out their soreness.

"So what, Eichi?" Keito cut down ruthlessly, "There is so much blackmail either you and Sakuma-kun can do before my patience finally snaps. If that's all you have to say to me, then please leave."

"Wait a minute, Hasumi-senpai," Anzu said, "I know that you refuse to write the script for this incoming musical but at least think about starring in it. Musicals could be a great revenue for ES and an opportunity to branch out for idols to greater heights. After discussing with Tenshouin-senpai and Sakuma-senpai, it is pretty feasible. Look at the ideas yourself."

When Anzu handed the documents Aira prepared when coming up with this proposal, Keito had looked through all of them while Aira nervously looked on, worried how he will react to the idea and also his part of the plan when it came to convincing Keito.

When he finally finished, he handed the documents back to Anzu and said to Aira, "They are really good ideas, Shiratori-kun. I can see why Producer, Eichi and Sakuma-kun were willing to advocate it."

"So, does that mean you will do it after all?" Aira asked, putting on the puppy dog eyes towards Keito like how Anzu instructed him to do and continued, "I know you just don't want to be forced into a priest costume by Tenshouin-senpai and Sakuma-senpai and you have already said no. I respect that because in the end, my musical proposal is amateurish. But I guess, at the very least, I did want to have a shot at making this dream come true."

A long brief silence followed this statement, while Keito had stared into those eyes with what looked like a million thoughts racing through his head and wanting to look away but can't before he said, "... If it is wearing the priest costume, I actually do not mind. At first I thought this was just a scheme by Eichi and Sakuma to mess with me while roping Producer and Shiratori into it. But I can see how serious you are about the whole project. It would be a disservice of me to not give the role a go considering your determination to see it through. So please don't sell yourself short, Shiratori."

"Oh really? Thank you very much Hasumi-senpai! This means the world to me!" Aira said, bowing down in gratitude. His response drowned out Eichi's muttering, "Thwarted again," and Anzu's awed reverence as she whispered, "So that's the power of Shiratori-kun's puppy eyes."

Everyone also missed Rei coming toward Eichi and muttering, "There is still time..."

But most of that went unheard as Aira simply can't believe his little idea was slowly becoming a reality. He swore inwardly that throughout the whole process, he made sure that everyone who would perform in the musical would bring out their best selves no matter what hijinks happened next.

Because the long road to a musical with events that would 100% go to his Idol Research file was filled with hijinks that he would complain inwardly and yet find worthwhile throughout the journey. For something he had a low stake with, it was certainly shaping into one of his greatest achievements yet.

A/N: As an extremely biased AiraP, I believe no one is immune to Aira's puppy dog eyes. This is 100% evidenced by Aira's Black Bunny ES when Makoto and Kohaku were not immune to Aira staring at them while he pleaded to them as they easily gave in. This could be what happened to Ibara too during Ibara's own ES when getting some of Aira's puppy dog look and also giving into him although there's no definite proof when he came up with an excuse to why he gave in to Aira but being heavily biased, I like to believe in the all-powerful puppy eye stare. I know that I'm posting this story a day early from Aira's bday but that's because I have a better story to post on Aira day. I believe in the power of rabui to get it finished and neatly written when my phone signals Aira's bday. Hallelujah.