He should have expected she might go and latch onto him again. He really should have. But the magician's comforting of the girl had let Kurogane ignore that possibility for a short bit, and it came back to mind hard when Ururu returned to him.

Keeping a hold of his food was not a problem this time, but it was his temper that ended up releasing instead. "Stop, doing that!" he barked, again without taking the time to stop and think. He wasn't exactly angry, just drugged and annoyed and clinging little girls that kept on clinging were not needed with that already terrible combination. That didn't mean he'd tried to remove her though. Odds were that he'd need both arms for that task, so he left her clinging while he tried to calm back to a controlled tone.

"Stop apologizing," he eventually added with a much calmer tone. He wanted to tell her to stop crying too, but experience told him that would be a waste of breath.