Uh-huh. Listen, before this place, I just got done with the NSA and the military before that. I don't need the lip service or the puppet strings.

I spent a day with him before everything went to crap. He seemed skilled in that Jack of all trades kind of way, but then seemed to fall apart when Kokichi got kidnapped. I didn't stick around after that. I don't think he's some big hero kind of guy, so if you tell him no and he comes anyway, probably more for his own reasons than yours.