[He's valid, though he does lean over to curiously look at Vash's drink. Looks like a dessert...]

For now, I think all we can do is keep playing by the rules. But Livio seemed to think things would work out, and I want to believe in that.

[So he will just buzz with anxiety and refuse to consider the possibility of failure, or else he will break before the finish line and that would render everything so pointless that he simply would not survive it.

His expression softens, though.]

I know. Shenhe seems so different now. [Meanwhile Wolfwood has been awake for a single day]