[The Regent is ignoring his interests...? That pings Ryunosuke's curiosity, and he might not be able to help himself from wondering after what those 'interests' of Childe's could possibly be... Except, that's all rather secondary to everything else about the current situation.

The thing is: he'd thought he'd quite mastered avoiding the emotion-laden outburst by now. Or at the very least, he's supposed to know better than this! Right? In that regard, Childe isn't telling him anything that he shouldn't already be well aware of when it comes to engaging with the enemy, which really makes his advice feel more like a lecture... Which in turn does make Ryu feel rather like a scolded yapping puppy, as the man had initially implied. He gets a bit snappish, as a result:]

I know all that! I mean-- I know they're just trying to provoke us, I just...

[He lets out a low, wordless growl of frustration, shooting a venomous glare in Paul's direction, and then another one back towards the Regent.]

They're not just content with threatening all of our worlds, they have to go and threaten their own world as well? The very people they claim to care about? It's a duplicitous and gross abuse of power! There's nothing subjective about that.