Oh, right, he'd been trying to keep up the wise cultivator persona in front of this kid. The reasons why, though, evade him, and anyway they pale in comparison to the excitement of being able to talk about Pokemon with someone who actually knows what he's talking about in more than vague terms (sorry, Nightingale).

"Yeah," he says. "I mean--I didn't have one in the world I was just in, before this, but I'm from Earth originally. Shanghai."