"Mm. July was a hell of a month, as I recall it." As in, he'd spent the second half of it implementing the first stages of the new, shiny plan to frame the Phantom Thieves for his own crimes, having failed to talk his bosses down. It had been around then that Okumura-san's father was brought into the inner circle too. "A vacation would have been a fine thing.

"You have a plan lined up, I take it, for when the newcomer steps through the door? Lots of smiles and eyelash batting?" It's not a jab; he bats his own at her, with almost exaggerated effect.