"Once is one time too many. I've seen it happen a few times earlier."

But Ash is just as new. This world is alien to him, as foreign as a world can be. In a place so full of magic, it couldn't be more different than a world made up only of science and effort.

"And I don't know how long it's going to last."

The sigh is contemplative. Soubi has no plans, and Ash isn't so open as to reveal his own as mundane as it may have been.

"But if you didn't have any plans, I'm going to lunch."

Food is a good start. It had to happen eventually.