[ When he'd left Yumenosaki back then, Leo had been able to see Knights on television or online whenever he really felt like it. Back then it had been something like repeatedly grinding his hand into an open wound, but he'd still done it sometimes anyway just because he couldn't help himself and Madara never made him stop. Here, that hasn't been an option and it wouldn't hurt in the same way it had then anyway.

This time around Leo didn't deliberately leave.

His grip loosens immediately and the hand on Hiyori's wrist lifts and it's like Leo wants to touch the phone screen but he doesn't quite do it. It has that open wound feeling to it, kind of, but in the way that makes him feel more settled.

It's not like he forgot her face. But he hasn't gotten to see it in ages, and Leo's attention is still singularly focused like it is when he's composing, but instead he's just memorizing, again, the face of one of his best friends. ]

...Mm, she sometimes would teach us about filters or stickers too. Well, me and Suo, anyway. [ Leo's always more annoyed with his phone than he isn't until he needs it - always losing it because he doesn't care - and Tsukasa is the kind of buttoned up to whom unbending to use cute apps is an Event. ] I used to use those alien stickers that she sent me a download link for, that you can use on messaging apps?

[ He'd spent a solid week sending nothing but stickers to his unitmates. ]