It's not often Taraga gets unsupervised time with Bae — Yohan's such a paranoid prick! Oh, Taraga knows he trust Bae implicitly. Which means it's Taraga he's worried about. Well, he can't really blame him for that. Taraga likes challenges, but Bae isn't a challenge because he has no hope at all of winning Bae over in any romantic sense. Challenges are fine, wastes of time, not so much.

All that aside, Taraga sort of adores Bae in more of a platonic, almost familiar sort of way. And the kid (as if Taraga's much older!) deserves to spend time with someone a little less psychotic than Yohan.

He's sure even their little lunch date is being monitored. He's spotted at least three of Yohan's goons. It isn't that they aren't good at blending in to spy on them. It's just that Taraga's better at picking out security. He had Yohan's help honing that particular skill — let it bite you in the ass, buddy! For now, he chooses to ignore them. Instead, he leans slightly forward, laying his forearms on the little cafe table between them.

"I need to ask you a favor, Bae, but you cannot tell Yohan about it."