[ if she already knows the answer why bother asking at all? It's an exercise in fruitlessness and best left untouched. ]

If you have fear to doubt your own, I'll correct that notion immediately. I have no wish to deal with histrionics.

[ a slap to the check should do the trick. Or else he'll just sling Yukina over his shoulder and saunter off to kill a dragon. It's just a day in the life of Kazama Chikage after all. Turning, abruptly, he stared into Yukina's eyes. ]

You are sure of your senses, are you not, woman?

[ one day, one day, he'll actually ask for a name, but that's just someday. ]