Honestly, if anything, the friction might be making him redder. It's kind of cute, frankly, as disinclined as Kurapika might be to say as much right now.

Instead, he's preoccupied with considering that, frowning into his own shoulder. "So... it was a massage," he says, perhaps somewhat pointlessly given that Leorio... pretty much just said that.

It's another long few seconds before he admits, "It wasn't bad."