"Not as much as it would take to actually talk to you about what's bothering them, right?" It was a thin line here too, the difference between using an indirect but socially acceptable means of communication and simply speaking ill about someone as an alternative to trying to solve the problem. It seems to Yukimura that Flayn was doing well to notice, but she wasn't being given much to work with.

"Maybe you can help them out and ask yourself." It's what he would do. (Yes, and look how far you've gotten with girls, Seiichi...)