There was an old, giddy part of him that gave a bubbly little chuckle at the way he bared those fangs. If he was going to lean into the lecherous flirtations, then hey, he might as well lean into the little things about the man that had always secretly made him feel just a little hot under the collar, when he decided to show them.

Hey, don't get too frisky with me, Blondie. You can't put those teeth to good use like you used to. I don't have a body to bite anymore, more's the shame! His Vash would probably have given him a good smack upside the head for that and called him a damn dirty liar, but what this one didn't know wouldn't hurt him. But the suggestive tone was quickly replaced by one that was...almost offended in the span of only a moment.

Because I care about you, dumbass. We all do. Me an' your mom an' Knives, we didn't want you t'be alone when-...

What?

Any happiness at the fact that Nai seemed to be a trigger point to keep poking if he wanted to get more answers fizzled out spectacularly when the rest of what he said clicked in his head, and all thoughts of making an ass of himself until he could figure out the way this one ticked died instantly.

Your-...Did you say your kids??? Vash-...Vash, what the actual fuck???

He had to have heard that wrong, there was no actual, possible way he had just heard what he thought he fucking heard, and even the thought of it made him feel like his skin would have crawled right off of his bones if he'd still had any!