[ ah, so they're jumping right into it... there's a pause as kaiser takes in what he's seeing; he assumes that akane's keeping her voice down and the lights relatively low because somebody else is around. maybe sleeping? either way, that does tip him off to the fact that he shouldn't be too rowdy about this. ]

... Of course, and thank you for having me. [ he smiles slightly, polite and meaningless, tilting his head towards the camera slightly. ] Shall we get right to it, then? I'm sure there's so much we could talk about.