Souji just smiles at that look of defiance--in part just to be annoying, but also because this makes him genuinely happy. This was what Hijikata was supposed to be like, not the doped-up version that had hardly seemed aware of his presence at all.

"Okay." He moves to help him up--he's not going to let him walk that distance unaided. He knows the livingroom is going to look almost neurotically tidy to Hijikata, and will probably say far too much about how he's been coping, but right now, he doesn't care, because Hijikata is up and alert, and that's all that really matters now.