"Well... yeah. You could've just told me you had personal reasons to be annoyed, but you went to the trouble of actually explaining - and you can say you owed it to me or something like that all you want, but I still appreciate it."

He glances away again with a quiet laugh. "...Besides, this seems like the kind of thing that'd be frustrating not to have people around you know about. It's good you mentioned it for your sake, too."

You're one to talk, Ginko.