Well, you could say as much for anyone who hadn't seen each other in a while.

['Not that I really have an argument to put up against that. It's true. I just don't like it. On the other hand, Haruhi Principle #1:']

Though you're right. What it really is doesn't matter as long as she thinks it's that way.

[He purposefully gives a somewhat disdainful shrug to the last part.]

Right. As far as I'm concerned, it wasn't the Brigade as soon as the rest of us weren't here.