"It's hardly an unpleasant topic, even if it's an embarrassing one occasionally." These westerners and their weird romance chatter. "That's true, I think he was afraid of having a reputation for caring rather than having one for being tough. Strange, but it did seem important to him." Yakuza...

He shook his head. "Well, this has been an interesting cultural exchange, to say the least." He was still totally behind tsundere being a thing, it just finally explained so much. It was clearly an important piece to the puzzle.