"Still sounds like an awkward situation... doesn't it make kirin targets of any nation wanting to invade another? Or do you have extra ways of protecting yourself against people being political assholes?"

He wondered, and sighed, flapping a hand at the nothing before them.

"It's whatever, doesn't matter one way or another here. Sorry that you're still away from your kingdom. Kind of seems like it just needed to learn to endure trials, and it's... shitty to say, but how old are you? Are you even twenty?"

Jingyi couldn't recall from the sometimes bored scroll through the passenger list he did when he was prepping to write to the train each day.