[He waits a while before answering, though the footsteps of someone in the background can be heard.]

Just... be gentle to Shou. [Not that Hisao wasn't generally a gentle guy, but... if there's going to be a conflict, Karu doesn't want it to be because Shou thought Hisao looked at him funny.

There are more important things! And also... dinner.]

That's fine, it will give me time to bathe the puppies... Coco smells like fermented mudcake right now. [What does that even mean?]