[Distracted as he was from the orders he was giving out, his own exhaustion and the fact that he had been busy patching himself up, he had failed to notice you coming, much less your presence, until you were right there and it was a bit too late to cover things up.

He stares at you for about a second too long before the voice on the other end reminds him that he was in the middle of his instructions.]

Give me a bit. [That's said in Japanese, matched by a cant of his head in the direction of his phone. Then he's putting the call on hold.

No, he's not going to look up at you. Might as well unwind these bandages.]

There was a situation in China. They needed some firepower over there to resolve it quickly and quietly.