[... Oh. Oh, that turns this into something new, and those butterflies drop dead in his gut.]

I don't know if I'd call it silly, but... it certainly is something. It turns my "almost too easy" into "not easy enough", even if the answer remains the same.

[He wonders what sort of things are important to Akira, which he can afford to lose and what he can't. Maybe he'll ask him another night.]