[How smart is he? The answer is very smart, Mio. Very.]

You're selling yourself short. [But that's all he'll say about that. He's generally bad at things like encouragement and complimenting, partially because he has no idea how to deal with it when other people give it to him.

He shakes his head.] It's no trouble at all. I'm not sure how good I'd be since I have no teaching experience beyond guest lecturing, but it'd at least be something.