He loves Viktor for asking like that, for knowing to ask like that, and it might seem like a foregone conclusion, but plenty of other people never learn how to deal with him, so Viktor bothering to learn warms him. There's a little more, he finds, that he can gift, push outside of his own comfort zone, if it's a reward for Viktor,

"Carry me. Please," the little plea is vulnerable. He's maybe pushed a little too hard at the clothing store, is stretched a little too far in some respects, but he trusts Viktor to put him back together, wants this part of it in a way he would have laughed at even a few months ago.