Alastair's lips twitched, but he decided to permit the touch. For now - if Bakura needed it.

"Yeah. Your phone and your comm. Keep 'em on you if stuff starts happening. Hell, if Saitou lets you, stay close to him. He and Kyosuke will protect you." His voice was firm and confident - he honestly believed it, even if both of them had failed, lost, and died before. The passing months since those incidents and now had erased his doubts and rebuilt his trust in them. "I want all of you guys to live, even if I have to come back up here and throw you onto a plane myself."