Ace found himself drawing some strange kind of satisfaction from witnessing a shift in the other's expression. However subtle it was, getting Minato to acknowledge there would always be consequences to his actions was a point the cadet had wished to make, and also meant in the most positive way.

"Yeah," he smiled lightly. "I have not many who would decide to follow the path of a summoner here, let alone show such interest, so I thought you would take good care of it." To put it simply, he'd caught a glimpse of the boy poking around the Pyramid in Mysidia while on a mission of his own, but there was still a chance he'd been wrong in his assumptions all along. Even now, his companion made it difficult to tell, though the question he eventually posed hinted at certain eagerness.

"However you like, I just can't claim to be experienced as far as teaching is concerned. Perhaps there is something you would prefer to focus on first, and we can simply choose to go from there." While he did run a rather tight schedule, none of that had stopped him from taking evening classes himself, before. It was only fair that they aided one another with the knowledge in their possession where it applied, as it was the one thing that could never be taken away.