"I know," he says with a huff. He can't bring himself to laugh about it-- actually laugh, that is-- but he's aware of the disconnect in significance with... a lot of other people on the train.

"You wouldn't be the only one," he says softly, trying to-- reassure, almost? He knows Koumyou's body count is sky-high, and he also knows these two are not the only ones on the train who've come from hard, violent realities.

"It's more than just-- being taught to be loving--" (He likes that.) "On my Earth, human life is... indescribably precious. We almost went extinct in the Apocalypse Plague. Population dropped from over eight billion to less than a hundred thousand humans in a matter of years. We lost so much-- knowledge, skills; our history; novel genetics.

"I don't know if I can articulate how-- how taboo it is to take any human's life, where I come from."