James suddenly turns around at the sound of Togusa's voice and hunches over, almost as if to try and hide the damage. Even if he doesn't sound like he's mad, he knows Togusa's stance on petty violence against Retrospec and knows that this can't possibly reflect well on him right now.

(Not to mention that he's entirely pink and emanating hearts right now, but he hasn't realized that yet.)

"Just--pretend I'm not here." And then, lowering his voice to a mumble: "I'm done now anyway."