Ren doesn't know what he was expecting, but a straight-up apology and admission of guilt was definitely not it. He blinks at Hasegawa for a moment, mouth slightly open, looking completely blank, and free of the jadedness that often makes him look older than his years.

It's just, adults don't say that. Not to Ren. It's not even that he thinks apologies have a lot of value; adults just don't even think he's worth the effort of trying.

"Uh," he says, intelligently. "...As long as you know you fucked up."