[Liem receives Minegishi's scorn without any apparent dismay or any amount of umbrage. What point would there be in that? He doesn't know whether Minegishi misunderstood him on purpose, or whether he just doesn't have the personal experience necessary to relate to him even slightly, but he's willing to respect the warning. It's probably not an avenue that will get him anywhere, even if he tries to forge his way through the thorns.

This wouldn't be Liem's first time getting insulted by a teenager, anyway.]

There certainly are plenty of other things to concern yourself with right now.

[He sighs lightly in agreement, eyeing the cacophony of forks getting shoved into their place before turning another pan over in his hands to scrub its edges.]

I'm not trying to make your life harder. But I think it will help you in the long run to make time to think about certain priorities.

[Gods know if Liem had spent the last hundred years just doing what he needed to without ever thinking about how he wanted to do it, or what he needed at a minimum to make his life bearable, he wouldn't have made it past 50. If he hadn't had people to point this out to him, that could absolutely have been a reality.]

It might be what helps you survive in the short term, too.