[hikari has the frozen expression of someone who wonders if he's being asked a trick question here, unresponsive for another few moments, before he answers, slowly.]

... If you insisted, I would not stop you, and I would be glad for your presence as a friend.

But understand that even I was not sent out to war until after years of training, and I was raised from birth expected to fight. If you asked, I would have no means of preparing you for battle in time. Therefore, I couldn't, in good faith, truly support such a decision.