omfg IM LAUGHING that sounds like an excellent first meeting i love it... itsuki has a habit of being too fresh with Company folk when he's sober imagine how he'll be when drunk... which means i'm totally down for it!! he doesn't even have to slip away, maybe hijikata can put him in jail for the night so he can sleep it off and cry in the morning about his hangover

and maybe he can get released bc he bribes one of the guards or something and that could lead Hijikata into the 'the fck i thought he was a drunk but hE'S ACTUALLY SHADY' territory!! basically i'm totally down for it leading into an interrogation/Company side-eyeing