Their brows pinch, tail twitching irritably.

"Stop talking about him like he's some kind of fucking mastermind." Why do all these people look up to that pompous ass? When they'd been dating Prompto he'd been the same. It was annoying. "You know what rules! That I'd actually get to witness my friend's wedding."

Though no one but Pitou is this pissed off. Obviously because they felt they deserved a special place in all of this. Was that selfish? Probably, and that isn't beyond them, but they don't like a world where Grell doesn't spoil them and give them special treatment.

Togusa's own brow furrows in return. "Sor-ry." Not really. "Grell was your professor; Ardyn was mine. Wouldn't be where I am without him. I look up to him and it's hard to just turn that off."

But Pitou's mad because of a lack of inclusion. And they have to be mad at Ardyn, make it entirely his fault, instead of being mad at Grell. Meanwhile Togusa couldn't bring himself to be actually angry about it, the romance of it all was too overpowering to take it personally.

"Did Grell at least promise to make it up to you?" He can't imagine that she wouldn't.

"I haven't spoken to her about it," easy breezy as if this is no big deal at all.

Realistically, the fact that Pitou was navigating their own relationship with Ardyn without bringing it to Grell was its own small victory. Even if their own method of 'navigating' was not the friendliest.

That startles Togusa, and his mouth forms a line as he looks at Pitou, again, we're back to incredulous. It's been a while since he's met someone who is throwing him off-kilter so quickly.

"She's...going to know that you know." Pause. "She's going to know that I know, I've got to figure out something to get them when we get back."

Pitou smiles lazily, and tells him quite authoritatively: "They'd love another cat."

That gets a laugh out of Togusa. "Of course they would! One that Souji wouldn't fight for custody over. Hmmm..."

Pondering. "They have more males, right?" Cat dynamics are weird. Introducing a new male might lead to the cat getting trounced by the others, but introducing a new female has its own problems.

"They have two and two. Morla and Penelope, Rochester and Erebus."

Penelope had been a birthday gift, from Pitou. Who had been instructed under no uncertain terms not to get them any more cats.

"Aha, I must have missed one last time." Because there actually had been one fewer the last time Togusa met at Ardyn's house instead of his office. "Hmm. Female cat, then. Another male might get beat up by the others."

"Thanks," Togusa is beaming, thinking he's got this all figured out, instead of realizing that he's being used as a cat's paw.