Right in the middle, right at the end... The biggest surprise is that he didn't do anything and he's probably gonna be preening smugly about that for weeks, y'know.

[ He deserves to be smug. Satori deserves to be smug, too.

Noa pauses at another stall to grab them each a beer and hands one to Satori. ]

It's been a good year, hasn't it? Both our citadels have grown, Hana-chan is doing really well, Tsurucchi and Kara-chan danced for you, and our bureaucratic overlords still haven't found a good reason to get rid of either of us! Cheers!