*hearts* it really is a lovely chapter. Shirogane's expressions are also very very lovely. It is quite amusing, considering who doesn't get the polite face from him, and instead gets his actual emotions. And for all his early protests about how much trust Shirogane wasn't extending to him, Akira certainly trusts him to let him make his own judgment calls now. Even if those judgments run contrary to Shirogane's own opinion, heh.