"If my company was enough, then I would think you have no reason to tease me," Dimitri counters without missing a beat, quite pleased with himself for it. Indeed, Dedue has expressed such a thing on perhaps every single birthday that Dimitri has ever gotten to spend with him. It has been ignored the exact same number of times.

At this point, Dimitri is starting to suspect that they do it because it would be stranger not to.

At any rate, Dimitri is happy to hand him the first of two packages - both of them floppy enough to betray they are clothes. One is a cooking apron, cheery bright yellow of a Pikachu.... with a hood connected to the top straps, with a pair of little pikachu ears attached. A most adorable cooking accessory, with many pockets! The other is a gardening apron...

...Albeit bright purple and with a ditto's blank smiling face right there plastered on the front.

It seems designed purely to disconcert people.

Dimitri thought that Dedue would find some amusement in it, or, rather, in the reactions of other people.

There's one more gift in his arms.... Large and bulky and very clearly a pot of some sort. With the way he's wrapping his arms around it, he's nonetheless trying to hide the obvious nature.