[Ah, now that's a question to ask...he can't help but chuckle as if Venus just said something funny, but funny is the operative word here. It doesn't come across as mocking, as if he said something stupid.]

Piece by piece, at times.

[The oppressive hegemony of heaven that is!!!!!!!!!]

Though we are quite different in our respective fields of interest when it comes to that, it would seem. For you, it seems it's something closer to engineering perhaps?