He laughed at that. "Force me to stop? I was looking forward to a nice, long, vacation from all of this." The laughter faded into a little smile in the end. "But if I came to you asking if I could retire, then you know I wanted to stop ahaha." Why were they talking about retirement plans??

"Ami wouldn't take too long to learn everything I could teach her. She's a smart kid." He watched as her smile faded, and his own sort of sobered up a little at the memory. "Her rough mission track record..." Shisui was thoughtful. "I believe she'd learn from it. It'll make her stronger." As rough as it had been, the mission had still been a success, regardless of whether it had diverged into something else halfway to their final destination.

He averted his gaze to the window. Ami didn't know the details of what he'd done. Ami didn't know anything unless somebody told her. And he-- he didn't want her to find out. He should have been the bigger man and snapped out of the rage back then, but he hadn't... If she found out now, he would have ruined her perception of things.

"Do you want me to take that glass?" Change of topic.