It's not accurate to say he begins to feel bad, because he already did. He'd been trying to tease and spouting off without thinking, and Togami hadn't taken it well, and he's both embarrassed and guilty over that. And it doesn't take an SHSL Elite to see that Togami's biting his tongue on some choice remarks; it just makes that hot-cold feeling inside of him worse. Like drinking a bottle of hot sauce and then chasing it with an ice cube swallowed whole. Gross.
And why?
He answers Togami, but his mind is on all of that, and it sounds as distracted as his mind feels:]
I . . . it's not like I'm not trying, just, haven't found a girl yet who's up for it, they're all taken or whatever . . .
[Not all of them, but plenty of them had been. Athena, Hinata. Inaba is, though that went sour anyway.
He trails off, and then comes out with what's really on his mind.]
—I was just messing with you, y'know, I was just teasing 'cuz I wanted to see if I could get you to blush some . . .
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It's not accurate to say he begins to feel bad, because he already did. He'd been trying to tease and spouting off without thinking, and Togami hadn't taken it well, and he's both embarrassed and guilty over that. And it doesn't take an SHSL Elite to see that Togami's biting his tongue on some choice remarks; it just makes that hot-cold feeling inside of him worse. Like drinking a bottle of hot sauce and then chasing it with an ice cube swallowed whole. Gross.
And why?
He answers Togami, but his mind is on all of that, and it sounds as distracted as his mind feels:]
I . . . it's not like I'm not trying, just, haven't found a girl yet who's up for it, they're all taken or whatever . . .
[Not all of them, but plenty of them had been. Athena, Hinata. Inaba is, though that went sour anyway.
He trails off, and then comes out with what's really on his mind.]
—I was just messing with you, y'know, I was just teasing 'cuz I wanted to see if I could get you to blush some . . .
Sorry.