"If only getting it out took as much effort as taking it back, I would've been happy," Nico mutters halfheartedly, and then leans into Maki's side with an abrupt switch in her demeanor, a smile stretching across her features.

"Come on," she coaxes in the very cutest voice in her arsenal, looking up at Maki with glimmering eyes and puckered lips. "I really didn't mean it, so forgive Nico, 'kaaay?"