[ With his attention divided between Chuuya and the yokai, it'd delayed his reaction so when that fist shot out to hit the red-head? Akutagawa should have activated Rashomon and the bristling air about him says he was sorely tempted to do so as the yokai fled like a damned coward.

It'd be too easy to activate and send out the beast to chomp it's large jaws around the other being but... he was not here to cause any more of a scene than what had been made already.

A soft growl barely escaped Akutagawa as he turned on his heel to go over towards Chuuya, noting that the executive was definitively drunk as hell right now. Probably due to what happened with Higuchi's departure from here which still made his own chest ache something fierce. It'd take time to make it go away, but right now he needed to be here for the other man. ]

I apologize for not finding you sooner. It took some time to track you down.

[ He's focused on trying to make sure that Chuuya's not going to be falling over or anything, but well aware of where things were going to go from here. ]

We should... go find somewhere quiet to talk if you can manage it.