Ah, really...? [Indeed, does it truly count as stealing if the stolen object is also returned.....these are the real questions. Questions that, alas, Shizuo wouldn't be able to answer if he were even aware of them. In the meantime, he's still making a bit of a face at all this, but the expression is less offended on Haise's behalf and more generally bemused now. Improvement?? Probably.] That's a pretty weird tradition. ...But I guess friends tend to do weird things like that, so that's fair.

[As if he could talk about weird friends anyway. Shinra has been begging him for blood samples and medical examinations since elementary school, all in the name of friendship--so, really, Shizuo has no room to be judging rituals like intentionally planting candy in your pockets for a sticky-fingered associate......]

Uh, but if that's actually true, then... [Squints??] Is it the first one, maybe?