It was in that moment that Reno was painfully aware that he was talking to a teenaged girl, yes.

"Maybe it ain't that he don't care. Maybe it's that he ain't got no way of understandin' what you're gettin' at. You're talkin' about this girl's learnin' ability. He's a teacher. To him, bein' able to learn things is good. And it don't take any special kinda skill to punch someone in the face, yo. You think he can understand the kinda work a ninja puts into their training?"