"You didn't make it that hard, Red Robin," Nate replies. He knows it's taunting to say it like that, but there are little parts of him that can't help but be taunting in this arrangement. This is someone who isn't so different from him—which is the problem. It is someone like that. "Which is surprising. It's almost like you were inviting us in."

Which he doesn't mean literally, but it is his way of displaying his skills. He doesn't mind doing that. Letting Tim know the way things stand doesn't mean that Nate will be any easier to conquer at the end of this.