He takes a minute, rooting out Gon's secondary and actual meaning there. Though the boy has already looked, he does too, then smiles rather rueful into the text book.

"Señor Ekkehardt convinced me to see him. I'm sure you noticed I wasn't in the best shape when I first got here. It's been better recently, that aside. He helped a lot, including with this all. I wasn't sure he could do it either but..." He shrugs. Clearly the man could.

He won't pry into the personal, so he simply says, "I'm glad you got things sorted at least. And that the faculty was able to help."