[It's a very fine line, and also Kou is privy to a lot more info than Akira is about Rion.

Which is why he just sighs, and:]

I probably could've kept my teasing to later too. [So she wouldn't have felt ganged up on. He pauses, and tilts his head at Akira, and adds a musing comment.]

But with what she deals with as an idol, some things are probably tougher to hear than others.

[Rion's stage persona is "flirty idol", but some of the shit she takes because of it is........ well. It's something to think about.]