Nico could make a whole show of looking affronted, chide Akiha for even suggesting such a thing in gest, because of course everyone's idol Nico-nii wouldn't be like that, really, what is she saying?

That would be the smarter option. The safer option. Nico entertains the thought for all of two seconds, before deciding she really, really doesn't have the energy for that crap.

She tears off a mouthful of crepe with her teeth, chews, swallows. "It's the twenty-first century, do you still have to act like that's some sort of insult?"