[He almost snaps a response back, that no, he doesn't want to talk, that all he wants is not to talk, but he recognises that this kid only wants to help, and in the end... he's just being nice. And right now, he's not really shunning any niceness at all, especially as he believes he doesn't exactly deserve it.]
[So he just sighs, shaking his head a little.] You know, my preferred method of dealing with a problem used to be to ignore that problem and hope that it eventually just... goes away.