Wow, what? His breath was totally fine! Kotetsu huffed at that, but soon enough paranoia set in. Putting his hand up against his mouth, he breathed out to check it. It smelled fine to him! "Whatever, I'm always kissably fresh!" Thankfully he didn't have to prove it to Barnaby, so his partner would never know if he was just being a bullshitter or not. They had more important things to worry about than his breath anyhow!

Sitting back down beside the young man, Kotetsu worried his hands together trying to come up with any logical reason he wouldn't wake up. The problem was there just wasn't one! "Y-Yeah. I didn't know what else to do--I mean, your pulse was fine, your heart beat was fine, you were breathing! It wasn't like you were dying, but you wouldn't respond and..." Kotetsu wasn't sure how to put his fears into words properly, so he just moved on without them. "I couldn't just let you lay there all by yourself!"