That's a surprise. I'm not ruining it even if you tried to slap it out of me.

[Or at least, that's what Bronya would hold to if not for the sound of clacking heels behind her...

It gets her to turn around, and--...oh.]



Was this even necessary...?

[...oh.]

Couldn't you have waited a little bit longer...? I wanted to at least try to give her some kind of present for putting up with me.

Like this, though? This is what comes to mind first...?

[...welp.

That at least answers the question of what this knucklehead dragged in, but as she steps aside so Mei can see Inaba, it'll probably jump out that this isn't quite Mei as Inaba knows her...]