Akihiko almost laughed when she jumped. He hardly ever saw Minako being caught off-guard. It was amusing, in a way. “Heh, don’t worry. It’s just noise.”

But seeing her reaction, he naturally assumed that she was cold. So he dutifully rose to his feet and retrieved a blanket from one of the empty bunks, wrapping it around her shoulders. His hands asserted a gentle squeeze before he pulled away to sit back down.

With ease, he returned to their earlier string of conversation; “It’s our duty to support you, you know. You call the shots, and we follow your orders.” He tilted his head a bit to the size in a quizzical manner. “Capture the Flag…? Oh, I heard some people talking about it around the camp. You think the rules are gonna be the same, like how we play in school?”