"I'm not going to push you," Devero says, a somewhat oblique response. "I respect you too much to try and pressure you into teaching me something that I-- that I could probably learn from someone else. Or that isn't even my place to learn!"

He wraps his free hand around one of Koumyou's, stilling the massage for a moment as he meets the priest's eyes. "I don't ever want to force you to do anything you're not comfortable with, okay? I promise."