Eeeeh~ I mean, how could I? There's some deep spiritual thing to a world where I feel like people are lucky to live to forty that I couldn't possibly understand. After all, there's probably a component of honor and justice to those Chuunin exams I've heard about, and that's something a city boy like me doesn't even have any of.

[He's projecting is what it comes down to. This is the rebuttal he wanted to give Green. This is the rebuttal he's wanted to give all the people from that damned pokemon world, dripping with sarcasm and perhaps a little resentment. The ninja world? This isn't his fight, and if he honest, he doesn't care that much to argue the point. But somehow, it's easier to say this to someone he's not sure if they'll murder him or not than to someone who would take his partner away]