[Ikki let's him do, both for the alcohol and because he doesn't mind it that much. If it wasn't Marco it would be a different story, but he's already come to accept that Marco is pretty over affectionate and trying to change that is pointless. Besides, it's not a bad thing, even if Ikki still believes it's not his type of thing.

He smirks at the anecdote, honestly having trouble imagining that there was a time in which Marco had trouble with people. But he can believe it, he has no reason not to.]

And you call yourself the older brother? You needed your little brothers help you with something so simple? At least you're still older than me so I'm not as sad as you are.

[A wry joke, because he doesn't know what else to say. Honestly, whenever Marco talks about his brothers and anecdotes with them, Ikki finds himself in a position where it's hard to say something. Because he can't relate most of the time, he has never been there for his brothers and even if he had been their situations just... Wouldn't allow for much of that. Even if he was more friendly or social, or at least more willing to hang around with them, it probably wouldn't work. He still remembers how confused and weirded Hyoga was when he arrived to Luceti and began to see the life that Ikki had ended with there. They may be brothers by blood but that's all there is in that regard, besides that they are just fighting comrades... And not even comrades that will die together but most probably alone, each one of them.

He sighs and nods again.]

About what started this conversation... I feel better, yes.

[About other things? Some resulted from this very talk? Not so much.]