[ He can only hold that stare for two seconds before he adverts his eyes, and even that feels like losing. Deciding to play dumb, he tugs the collar of his shirt up a little more to cover where his name had been branded near his shoulder, and nods his chin up towards the rest of the town, hoping to divert Kaiki's attention away from himself. ]

Y-yeah! Lots of things are so weird out here— just look at the sky! And all the ugly houses, with those weird colors!

[ Surely those things are more interesting than whatever Yukine is, though he has to wonder whether Kaiki can accept them just as easily as he did talking flowers. ]