Gojyo stilled, staring down at the top of Hakkai's head with surprise. Pay him back? But no, he'd already paid him back, with interest. Did Hakkai really not remember the black eye, and the...?

...Oh.

Oh.

Hakkai wasn't offering him a chance to pay him back for the torment he'd put Gojyo through. Hakkai was asking to be tied up and tormented.

"Uh." Gojyo's brain might have been turning a thousand RPM, and his mouth might not have been able to form actual words, but the way Hakkai was lying on Gojyo, there was no way for him to miss that some part of Gojyo very much liked the idea.

Hakkai wanted this. Did Gojyo have any reason to object?

...None that he could think of. Well then.

"Yeah! ...I mean, uh, yeah. Yeah, y'know, you really deserve it. So I'm just... gonna have to give it to you."