[Mouri tenses slightly when Mettaton talks. It's not because of hard feelings, it's more because wow, did he piss the robot off yesterday. Mouri knows he can't afford to back off after everything he said - after all he hasn't discarded the theory about Alphys, he just won't mention it until there's something else to support it - but the least he can do is be courteous.

Mettaton being at least carefully and frankly a bit artificially back to his normal tone kind of helps.]

Of course not. If there's anyone with reasons to have hard feelings it's you.

[Pause, deep breath, exhale]

I may have gone a bit overboard with my reasoning. It's still too early and this is not something that can or should be solved after so little time. I should have known better.

[It is not an apology, Mouri very, very rarely apologizes for anything, but it is at least an attempt to normalize relationships. After all, they are all trapped in this place and with a challenge to murder people. Fostering grudges seem like the premier way to worsen everything.

Goodness, how could he be so stupid before not to think about the consequences? Mouri really is way too used to the police cases that get solved in a few hours, tops.]