"Mmf!" Maki lets out in surprise as Nico grabs her face so suddenly. For a moment she thinks she might kiss her but it's clear from the way she's smushing her features that she wouldn't.

She glares at Nico, through it. Maki loses all her patience when Nico gets unreasonably bossy. She should know how hard this is for Maki. She keeps herself so guarded, so calculated. This took a lot.

And yet Nico has a point. This hasn't been a good confession at all. She could understand Nico not wanting to go out with her simply because of it.

And, for that, she should try harder.

She opens her eyes and meets Nico's with a good level of new determination, and a strange softness to them too. She puts her hands on Nico's, more in an effort to pull them from her cheeks a little so she can speak more clearly.

"I like you, Nico-chan. Please go out with me. If you want to..."