"I do seem to get along better with some familiars than people. It's a bit disorienting, since I spent most of my life convincing people monsters aren't real, just other humans pretending," a shrug.

He wonders. After all, by the time Nobunaga was 15 -- well, it's not worth getting into either.

But Shinji and Zuko were certainly experienced in intense things themselves, even if they didn't seem to be still flogging themselves with guilt, but maybe it was a personality thing, or maybe it was that Gokudera had done more than Nobunaga could imagine -- which was an exciting prospect for him actually.

"That kind of talk is better done over sake. I could get some, but I seem to have made you as on edge as a cat in a bath. Are you able to relax without it?"