No matter how much he complains, Tachihara knows that Jouno doesn’t actually hate Tetchou. It’s why he’s able to talk about him so casually like this. He keeps talking as though Jouno never said a single complaint at all.

“He’s helped me a lot, too. His training actually saved me in a fight recently, I’ll have to thank him,” he says. “It was this specific trick he used against me once… It was a rush when I realized I could counter it.”