That it could be a sensitive subject to some doesn't quite occur to Zenos. He's proud of his home, and all that entails, and assumes everyone feels similarly about their own.

Clearly since Taiki is okay with talking about it, he too must be proud of where he's from. .. Both places.

And it almost makes sense in a way he's familiar with, so the Garlean nods. He can absolutely accept a world full of technology but also unusual creatures, wasn't that what his own was like? Garlemald, the only bastion of high technology.. and the rest of the planet, full of dragons and gryphons and catgirls. "Do these.. divinities pick those best suited, through these 'kirin' emissaries, or is it whim?"

He sounds terribly interested, which isn't a good sign. "Do the people respect a king or queen that might have once been a rags-wearing peasant?"