Well, I guess you're from a world used to war, then. [So maybe adjusting to Death City isn't so difficult.]

I'm from the south, in Japan. Kyushu, actually, is where I grew up, but I was at a school off the mainland right before I came here.

[It's hard to ignore Shinji's light blush and the whole experience of sitting and calmly drinking tea and making smalltalk is starting to get to him. He's going to be staring at his tea instead of at the two of them.]