[Those are interesting facial expressions that Mizuki shifts between.]

At least when it comes to me I'd rather you save your thanks for your blue-haired buddy. I only took part because he offered compensation. Just a hired hand.

[A hired hand who never got paid for it. By the time there was a good opportunity to cash in on it, what he'd wanted was no longer possible. The sight of Aoba hugging the dog Allmate to his chest while tears rolled down his cheek has been seered into Noiz's mind forever. It marked the end of his possibility of getting that rematch.]