He'd just say something like "I'm okay, I'm okay! I've nearly been eaten alive or something equally horrific!" or whatever.

[there is so much exhaustion. but also a tiny bit of fondness. that said it really is like 95% exhaustion and 5% fondness]

Ah, jeeze... Sorry you had to deal with that - Takeru was being annoying about something so I wanted to stick with him this week. Next time I'll just go with you.