[ Mikado sees the light at the end of the tunnel now, he can escape!! He gets up off the counter, and he smiles for Linda and fixes his glasses. He's... ]

I thought you didn't start yet? [ A beat, and then as he turns to rummage in the cupboard (which Mikado recognizes is to hide the fact she's lightly embarrassed to need to do this at all) ] But yeah, sorry, Mikado. Guess that was a little bit of projection on my part. My bad. [ A hum, and- ] Enjoy her body though, Emperor!

[ And she laughs, going full joker here as he finds her own commentary hysterical apparently, and Mikado, for his part... ]

I... you're best off with orange juice, I think.

[ And grabbing Nariko's hand to march them out of there before they get sucked into another vortex ]