[literally snarls at "they aren't really alive"]

"Just" trees?! Without trees we would all be dead! And they are alive, they are!

[stares him up and down]

...

And you're sure she said the truth? What if you secretly w-work with Yuri, just like Roma?

[the survival argument dampened his anger a little, but he doesn't let it show]

[some part of him knows he's being unfair, but then again people are always, always cruel to trees, so isn't he right in being angry?]