Delayed Gratification. Delayed Pain.
He just wanted to be home now. He hated these after-work gatherings, and hated that there was a social expectation set upon him to have them, even if he liked to drink.
He didn’t realize he had closed his eyes until a nudge from Takahashi startled him from his hardly-conscious trance. He blinked at his coworker, who waved at the waitress, who bowed apologetically and hastily explained that someone had offered to pay for his tab.
Or, Gojo and Geto reach out to Nanami a few years after he retires from sorcery and decides to work as a salaryman. They have no ulterior expectations other than checking up on him, or so they claim.
