It really is, isn't it? Pain is horrible, and he still doesn't entirely know how it feels. It's important to be able to feel it, but... there's still some part of him that wishes it wasn't.

But Dove squeezes Akira's hand as he as goes to take a seat, offering a smile of his own as he sees the silly-looking smirk on Akira's face.

"Yes, thank you..."

He thinks on what Akira said, rotating it around in his mind before speaking again.

"Pain truly is an awful thing, isn't it? It's certainly not my preference, now having experienced it myself."

A little bit of a lighthearted lilt to his tone at the end there, a slight attempt at a joke.