He didn't have any idea what he just said to make her look so ridiculously happy, but the kiss seemed to prove he'd done something right after all.

"That sounds fair," he allowed. The potential option to refuse without repercussion was as much as anyone could ask for. Bakura couldn't think of anything offhand that he might ask Pepper to concede to, beyond the acknowledgement that (as tonight, for example) he would undoubtedly do things that troubled her without him even knowing he was doing it.