You mean the one on the end? Octopus? That's "tako." With a name like mine I've pretty much got to be Japanese, I figured.

[Unless it's not really the name he used to have...?

Just the thought makes him feel kind of sick, and he glances away, worry pressing his smile out to a flat line for a moment.]

... I guess if you're a shinki too I can't ask where you're from, but it sounds like you read Chinese?

[Oddly, both of those readings seem comfortably familiar to him. He guesses he could've learned it somewhere, and tries not to think about where as that discomfort threatens again.]