[It is both a possible and entirely improbable solution to the collar conundrum. For him, anyway, though here it's (somewhat) less of an issue, in its own strange way. As in, he still hasn't figured out how to feel about the whole affair, because he's a little slow and a little preoccupied with shit like random girls kissing him.

Which he is kind of starting to figure out (slowly!) is the thing that's happening, particularly with them all tangled up now both physically and mana-wise (his hands are still stubbornly clenched in the shawl, and probably some of her hair by now too); the stream didn't do this back home, whatever is going on with the magic that everyone keeps telling him about. It unsettles him, so it pisses him off, so he hasn't got around to examining it. Meantime, Caren is unsettling him, that is not the reaction you usually get when you bite someone and she keeps doing it.

Well, and also Drunk Captain Extraordinaire chooses that moment to wolf-whistle at them loudly around the (sadly inorganic) lip of her bottle of whiskey.

Possibly the only thing funnier than Nora's face as he suddenly tries to shove away and completely fails is that he bonks their heads together trying to do it. Possibly not that funny, possibly a bit painful of the non-nice variety, but you should've seen this one coming.]

What the... Wh-- You-- Ow!