Well. Fine. It had been a low blow, solely due to his own annoyance with the situation at large. It doesn't mean he is going to apologize, but that reminder of being one of the only left alive... that does hit hard. He would have been infuriated, too.

"Let's just stop wasting time on these things," he says briskly instead of jumping at the fight in the making, which is pretty close to apologizing in his book. "You're not my Nie Huaisang and I'm not your Jiang Cheng. But there are others here from a similar world who don't look like they should."