The universe was laughing at them there, with the child of a modern age being educated in such a manner while the adult of a bygone era was hopelessly naive. He had a good idea, certainly, but there was a difference from growing up where the most racy things were woodprints and paintings and a place where the most graphic acts were a few keystrokes away.

The look on Kaoru's face coupled with the words threw the onmyoji off his rails, and he found himself looking away first, eyes down as he finished his cake in silence, focusing on the last strawberries instead of the prickle on his spine.