[While waiting for Kokichi to answer the door, he'd begun to wonder...had he perhaps made a mistake? He'd assumed that Kokichi was the one male he COULD rule out as the person who'd dream-slept with Kaede. Because surely, if she had, she would just just said so from the start. But now that he has a moment to think about it...the timing of his message is definitely suspect and his detective's intuition is piqued.]

[But then Kokichi answers the door and one look is all it takes for Shuichi to realize what he thought was his detective's intuition was probably just paranoia. The leader clearly hasn't slept in a few days. And if he wasn't asleep last night, it can't have been him.]

[But now he's even more concerned than he was before. Kokichi hadn't looked this bad when he'd last seen him. Hell, aside from the scrapes and bruises on his face from falling down on the ice so much, he hadn't even looked bad, period. He'd seemed normal.]

[But clearly, he'd missed something. Circles like that don't happen in just one night. He must have been wearing concealer. Really good futuristic space concealer, because Shuichi hadn't been able to see a difference at all.]

[Or maybe Kokichi is just that good at putting on makeup. Honestly, he'd believe it.]

M-mm...well I'd just left my room when I saw your message, so...I wasn't very far away. [This is clearly not what he wants to talk about, however, judging by his expression. But he still feels bad about unintentionally keeping Kokichi waiting for so long and kind of figures he owes him an explanation.]

Oma-kun...when was the last time you slept? You look terrible.

[Yeah he is not buying that chipper facade, he knows that's a lie. He's also not coming inside Kokichi's room, despite the gestured invitation.]