His eyes narrowed as she explained. There was no way that--no way. Tanaka's teeth gritted, and he gripped the bridge of his nose. "That can't... no, that's not..." He seethed quietly as he tried to find the right words to describe just how wrong this was. He couldn't be here. Yuuhi Town was out there, and his team, they would...

There was several moments of him starting to say something, before cutting himself off and seething some more. There was no way to properly convey the problem to this girl. If he was here, then there was no way he could be helping people. What would Doumeki--what would everyone think, just up and vanishing like that, he'd be... the Asahi would peg him as a coward, no doubt.

"That... that's not right," was all he could manage to strangle out in the end.