The young man looked startled by her abrupt words. "Uh... can you show me around?"
Ash was feeling that he had quite a shameless side to him or that he just had a quite persistent side to him. 'Or is he just an idiot? Maybe he is the type that just does not take no for an answer?'
No matter how she thought about it, her previous attitude may not have been overly rude but it had shown how she was not interested in him.
If she was interested in any way then she would have made time for him despite there being a call waiting for her.
If he wanted help from anyone in the gym then he could have easily gone to any of the others.
Despite that option being available, he still stood there waiting for her until her call had finished and then went on to ask the same thing of her.
His actions had clearly shown that what he wanted from her was not what he had stuck around to ask her.