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"So, Andarien..." Eron murmured after watching the boy (young man) spend time with his Pokemon, "How are things going with training?"

He figured that was a safer thing to ask, he noticed how Kaito and Andarien interacted. While he didn't quite approve of how Kaito taught, he did feel it spoke a lot about how Andarien handled his own emotions.

He was pretty sure by now that Andarien didn't see things the way other people did. Not that the boy was innocent by any stretch of the imagination, but there was a very cause and effect viewpoint. Andarien also seemed to have trouble expressing his feelings, or at least it hadn't occurred to Andarien to maybe talk to Kaito about his teaching methods.

Goodness knows, if Eron was right, he was tempted to talk to Kaito about his teaching methods.

That was his fault, he should have been clearer.

Eron replied, "Training with Kaito, I know I watched, but I'd like to get your perspective on it."

Really, Kaito broke every rule and then some in Eron's own personal set of teaching rules, but since he was just a chemistry teacher, he didn't know if training in the martial arts was different.

It was a bit amazing that after all that, there wasn't a bit of resentment in Kaito's teaching methods. Eron wondered if Andarien would even remember the reason why he was learning pressure points from Shoneah once he was done.

"Well, I think you're quite good for your age," Eron offered, "I didn't know you've worked with Kaito for so long..."

He paused a bit and then asked in a manner fitting only for an outsider.

"Is he always like that when he trains you?"

"Do you think he's a bit of a jerk?" Eron asked.

It was interesting how quickly Andarien forgot, which was good, it probably meant he didn't view what happened before as important. However, if that was the case, then he tended to overreact greatly.

Eron had to admit, even to a normal person that is jerkish behaviour, but he wondered if perhaps Kaito wanted something out of Andarien.

"Not that I disagree with that being jerkish behaviour," Eron began.

Though he did notice the others didn't take it as poorly as Andarien, but they were probably use to it and probably would happily whack Kaito in turn.

"But why haven't you asked Kaito why he did that?"

Actually, Eron would like to know why Kaito did that himself.

"But what is he teaching you, or better yet," Eron decided that maybe Andarien needed a push in the right direction.

That is, if his theory was right, he wasn't quite sure.

"The question is, what does he want you to do? He used a pressure point on you, but he couldn't have known Shoneah knows pressure points as well, so what do you think he wanted you to do, or learn from having it done on you and then him walking away?"

Eron was sure, Kaito wanted Andarien to ask questions. Perhaps even pursue information outside of what he was being taught, instead of having the lesson plan always given to him. It was important that students tried to improve themselves on their own time, but how to get a student to do that was always the million dollar question.

Eron nodded, he also noticed how Miyuki at times often had to explain little social nuances. It was actually kind of interesting, because she didn't seem at all put out by it. It just became something that Miyuki was use to.

"Can I ask you, and you don't have to answer if you don't want to. What did you first thing Kaito was doing, why did you think he was doing it the first time he did it before Miyuki said it was to teach you how to defend yourself without a weapon?"