The man chuckled and didn't respond right away, instead lifting his cigarette up to his mouth to take a long drag, which he held for a few seconds before puffing it in her direction. The smoke served only to obscure him more. "We all need friends, even someone like you. You just have to be careful who you pick. Out there, you have good men, you have bad men, and you have hopeless men. I'll let you guess which kind of man that guy is." Grinning, he stepped a bit out of the shadow and moved in closer to her. "I'm not a hopeless man, though. How about I be your friend?"<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Unaware of any disturbances Isabel was dealing with, Kuroda arrived at the simulation room rather quickly and found it mostly empty, completely so were it not for the pair of younger girls who were getting into a pair of pods. Neither one of them really looked like Fighters to him, he didn't prejudge them based on that. He was about to ignore them and go over to one of the pods in the far corners of them, but when the blonde addressed him, he looked up and nodded politely. "I figured it couldn't hurt. Never can rest when you're a Gundam Fighter, right?"