If we are speaking on apologies... [ Well, there was one touchy subject...

He decides now is hardly the time and place for such, when it hadn't even been the Shinsengumi's wrongdoing. ] Never mind that.

Perhaps you are right, but I dislike the thought of this place having the ability to give and take at will. [ They might try to take away more than physical items. He doesn't say out loud, lest it might become a reality.

This place really brings out some of his more annoying worries and thoughts, doesn't it. At the suggestion of practicing and fight, he's a little relieved because he can take his mind off things. ]

If you do not mind this terrain--I would not mind it. [ He'll extend his own invitation, if he hadn't been given one. ]