Touya lowered his gaze, feeling unsurprisingly sombre as he listened to his… friend. Friend? Was N even his friend? He couldn’t tell, they weren’t even supposed to be talking right now. As much as he would have liked to be friends with N, just thinking about Team Plasma revealed such a big gap between them that he wasn’t sure if he could conquer it. Maybe a friendship between them was never meant to be, as depressing as it sounded.
“I still want to… try and understand your way of thinking better, N,” he replied quietly, a little above a whisper so he couldn’t even tell if the other was listening. “And then I’ll hope to make you see my worldview too.” It was rare that he spoke of their differing perspectives in such a way, but Touya couldn’t help it. He could try as much as he wanted, he was already too involved in this mess — now he simply had to make the best of it.
Seeing the other’s smile, he felt relieved to know that he had said the right thing. Chuckling lightly, he shook his head, unable to accept N’s thanks. “No, it’s all right. You’re already going out of your way to go with me,” the boy explained with a soft smile, giving his own words more emphasis with a short huff. “I can imagine that your… peopl won’t be happy to hear about it. So it’s only fair that I consider your feelings, too.”
Maybe it wasn’t very smart to be so… friendly to his supposed to be enemy, but N had never treated him poorly. The least he could do was to return the favour, after all.
“Listening to you makes me really wonder what the Chargestone Cave is like,” he brightly smiled, before he laughed lightly. Even if N rambled on and on, it wasn’t unpleasant to him. He could feel the other’s compassion for Pokémon and how much he cherished them. Although he couldn’t deny that he felt a little jealous when faced with N’s understanding for these creatures, he also liked to see the young man so happy. And that only happened when he was talking about Pokémon. …kind of a pity, he would have liked to make N happy, too. “Don’t worry, I really don’t mind,” he laughed lightly, before a startled yelp escaped him as he was dragged along by the older teen.
It took him a few moments not to stumble over his own feet, as he tried to keep up with N’s enthusiastical steps. However, once he had steady footing, he glanced up at the other. “A-and you really don’t mind calling one of the Pokémon out?” he enquired shyly, but curiously while they approached the entry to the cave. “As much as I’d like to see them, I wouldn’t want to bother them, you know! The Chargestone Cave is their home, after all. We’re already intruders, so… yeah.”