[It's that second half of the video that gets him to respond, really; after all, Ishimaru is bossy as hell and conversationally unpleasant unless he's having a particularly good social day, but he isn't without compassion. And that sort of thing...well. He can imagine the sting in it, even if he figures that Apollo's relationship with his grandfather is far different from his own.

He still seems fairly severe when he responds, though he isn't trying to be, and it's fairly clear that Apollo isn't the only one seeming uncertain about all of this; he's locked the feed down, at least, because this doesn't seem like a conversation that people should have out in the open.]

This place has given a few of us reminders from home, it looks like - my classmates and I received things as well. Some of them are a lot crueler than others.

[His expression flickers a little. His own definitely wasn't nice; he tries to keep it away from his thoughts for the most part. Oowada-kun's is the one that concerns him right now; it seems to have made him a bit strange. But that is neither here nor there right now.]

I can see where what you got might trouble you - are you going to be fine?