I don't know if I'd say that. Sometimes it's easy to miss when people take something badly.

[He had certainly had his share of negative reactions, though his first instinct was to pull away and avoid everyone when something truly bothered him. He wasn't exactly the type to talk it out.]

Is that so? Gai... didn't make the sushi himself, did he? [He had heard things about Gai's cooking, but it was hard to tell if Bell was exaggerating about that or not. And she wasn't showing any signs of food poisoning, which was encouraging.]