[ how rude!! he pretends to think for a whole three seconds. ]

Well, you work all day, and when you come home, you just do paperwork. Oh! But there is something interesting about you. It's —

[ tsurumaru holds his hands up, palms facing forward, and bends the tips of his fingers inward, really similar to what shishiou does with his hands whenever he gives his trademark gao! and just in case that wasn't implicative enough: squish, squish, wriggle, jiggle, boink.... he's kidding, don't destroy him.

anyway, you'd hurt less if you hadn't gotten up in the first place is what tsurumaru wants to say, but he's sure that's something that hijikata already knows, so he gives him a disarming smile instead, a slight sarcastic lilt to his voice. ] Let's save that for when you feel better, Hijikata. I find no delight in being tied up by injured men.

[ and who's fault is that! gosh... it's tsurumaru's own fault. but he's going to make sure that hijikata doesn't put all of his efforts to waste. ]

Here — lie back down. [ assuming that everything's in the same room, he walks over a bit, to give the mattress a pat! ]

It's a waste of bandages if I have to change them again in the next twenty minutes, you know.