[you know when you take someone to olive garden and they tell you it's such a wonderful place and the best meal they've had]

[That's the kind of sympathy, confusion, and understanding Ethan wears on his face with that. This was excessive, sure, and luxurious in its own way, but it wasn't what he would call fancy.]

Okay, okay, then here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna start saving up whatever paycheck they give us, and we're gonna find whatever they call a five star restaurant here. We'll chat up our youkai bros, ask them what sort of places they dream about eating that, then we'll go for that.

[The plan is deviating wildly from a birthday wish but, hey, he was mostly joking about the present anyways. He even, following Artemy's general beat, accepts the youkai as their hypothetical brothers. He means less by it but it doesn't hurt to say it.]