At Zechs's glare, Hakuba smiled softly again. Even if Zechs was still worried, and patronizing him a bit, it was good to hear him concentrated in other's thing than worrying about Tykis. Not like that wasn't comprehensible, Hakuba was worried as hell too, but showing it and panic will not help anyone. So he choose to be the cold heartless bastard because sometimes someone needed to be that.

He noticed how Zechs's body language changed as he drank. Akako's potion was working, slowly, like a caress of the lady of the night, calling him to sleep.

"Sadly, it goes slowly. It can took me more than I first expected. That's why I told you about not making fast judgments, they explode on your face. I thought that It would just took me the whole night but maybe it's a bit more, even with Doyle working on it too. Who designed the system was a genius or a mad person. A mix of both, probably."