[WELP. This sure is a hug, and he'll hug Akira back. He can tell Akira needs it. But it's not going to be wordless on his side of things.]

How long? I've only been at it a day! Purple said I needed to be careful, but I didn't think I'd come across someone else with a special role so easily.

[He should have expected it though, Akira has been really on the ball during this game.]