The same... His attention drifts, a little more focused now, towards her face even as he listens to the automated message of the phone. The words seem familiar- drawn out from old thoughts buried and then excavated from his past. Ken had always been the muscle, the fighter, the one with a Channel for just about any situation that could be thought of. Cheetah for speed, kong for brute force, wolf to bite through actual steel... Yet he knows if it had been only that, Chikusa would have been more reassured, in some ways, with his intelligence to balance things out.

There was someone else he compared himself to. They exist, he knows they do, haunting the edges of so many of the memories he shares with Ken, the only memories of his past life. Yet if he thinks too deeply, wonders what it is he compared himself to....

She might not have gone out the same way, but Ayumu is a prime example of the result that comes from a shinki failing to watch themself.

Best to concentrate on the rest of the conversation. "I don't think too many in our group do..." That is to say, the new shinki instead of the more established ones. "And even in the group of those, knowledge... is pretty scattered. Even with me." It's why he badgers Sabimei so much, even though the older shinki has been pretty hard to work with. It's one of his only leads into other spells that he hasn't found in the library, and may possibly not be able to.

"Anyway... I'll take a look." He can at least check if he recognizes and, if he doesn't, then it's more knowledge for him anyway.