"Armin's talked about that a lot. He's really happy here because he gets to explore and do science-y stuff all the time, so I honestly hope he gets to stay here as long as he wants to..." ever since Kazuki had the awful luck to see one of Jean's nightmares during a weird Halloween event two years ago, and caught a glimpse of the world under the subjugation of Titans, he's had the same hope for all of the people here from that world.

"Oh, writing in Japanese is different kinda different from how they do it in most of the world... How would I explain..." Japanese wasn't his best subject either. He had to think about it for a second. "Most languages have an alphabet with letters that make different sounds, and you string those together to make words. In Japanese, most of our writing is made up of characters called 'kanji.' Each Kanji is a different word, and then they can make more different words when you put them together. The Kanji for 'fire' looks like this..."

Kazuki held out his palm for her to see, and then drew 火 on it with his finger for her.

"It's actually one of the characters that makes up my surname!"