Miki had a moment to gather herself, and it seemed that by the time she'd done that properly, Kou was now in the same sort of embarrassing situation that she'd been before. She took note of his reddened face and tried to look away a bit to spare him too much of this feeling. She felt the need to apologize and ease his mind a bit. She could at least, take responsibility for adding to the awkwardness of such a situation for him. "Gomennasai, I didn't mean to make that awkward for you. Do you need a minute or two?" she apologized for staring and asked willing to give the lad a bit of space to get himself together, also seeming to be a tad bit bashful. She knew he seemed to be pretty uncomfortable with the idea of their closeness and didn't want him to feel bad or super awkward because he'd been pants'ed in front of her. To be honest, she'd only really been embarrassed herself because she'd let her mind wander a bit too much while she stared at his manhood, while knowing about her own past missteps as she tried to navigate the nature of their partnership. She could only hope that something like a beach trip would get everyone back to a more normal pace, as an aside at the very least, time seemed to be passing decently quickly.

As the pair of older teens navigated their way through the awkwardness of the situation created by Karna, Hikari watched those little ears of hers twitching as the lad mentioned that the manhood of boys was something they were insecure about, and beyond that money, power and status also tended to be things, but he claimed it all boiled down to genitals which was sort of weird to the girl, but she understood at least a little. "Sou ka, Dick-sensei, you seem a bit obsessed. We've already established that his... bits aren't actually a problem here right? So...." the girl paused to think about their lives before coming to this world, and wondered if her brother had a hangup related to some combination of the other things. Money, power and status didn't really matter to them, they weren't poor as kids but proved their worth and worked hard every single day. He was an admirable older brother who always did his best and provided for her, especially when she was too sick to take care of herself. She knew for a fact that her brother had a lot to offer anyone, especially a girl in a relationship with him, perhaps... he just didn't really know how to approach it with Miki because of something like that. From what she'd seen of Miki, the girl seemed to have herself together rather easily, she also didn't act like someone who wasn't used to having those things, so she made the assumption that she'd always been that way. 'Hmm... maybe it's something like that...'