[well that's quite the toothy grin. this is a kid who grew up just with ghosts and weirdness so that gets a moment of 'huh' before it's dismissed and he's nodding seriously.

truly this man gets it, that's exactly the kind of thing captain musashi would say. in a way it's comforting to hear again in so off a city as this.]

That's what the captain of my club always says too. That it's not a race and every bit of progress is progress.

[even if it's very slow progress in his case, whoops.]

I'm Kageyama Shigeo. [he bows his head in greeting, looking up to offer,] People call me Mob.

[being in a place full of people from a lot of different cultures kind of makes offering his nickname instead easier than figuring out what's rude and what isn't. ] It's nice to meet you.