[With permission, the fry goes sailing through the air and harmlessly "dink"s against Ydris' appearance. Ethan shoots him a thumbs-up for his impeccable reflexes before diving back in to eat more of Junpei's food (paid for by Ydris' money) himself.]

So you're gonna say you're useless and refuse to do anything "frivolous" until you're not?

[can't relate]

And you're still worried about someone like me, huh! [he stops to laugh] Guess you aren't too bad, then.

[He does at least get some feeling that, right, he shouldn't be pushing the feel-good train at a post-mortem strategy meeting for their weirdo leader. Unless the whole thing falls apart, they're allies at the most basic level.]