Sapporo and Sinnoh... Dimitri makes a note to remember those names, just in case. For now, he lets himself be the listener as Akane speaks, and smiles a little bit as she describes it all.

"That sounds nice," he says, nodding. "I like places like those - where you are not quite in the thick of so much hustle and bustle, but still surrounded by friends and family. Does your home being on a series of islands- well, I was going to ask if it affects living there, but I suppose it must."