how about "help"? if not that, then "fall"?
Shou,already leaning on the staircase railing, tsk’ed loudly. “Can’t believe you’dstoop to swearing. I thought you were better than this, who’re you hangingaround with these days?”
“No idea,”Ritsu shoved his friend’s face with one hand in passing. “Some idiot who won’tleave me alone. Won’t even tell me his last name, only introduced himself as‘Just Shou’. It’s ridiculous, I’ve tried everything.”
“Wow, thatsounds like a bother, want me to yell at him?” Shou asked earnestly, coming upclose next to him and tapping his chin in thought. The spark of mirth in hiseyes made Ritsu bite his tongue to avoid laughing.
“I don’tknow if that would help, he seems a little slow on the uptake sometimes, youknow?”












