"'Lie' is such a negative word. I prefer to call it 'creative truth-telling,'" Jade replies without a shred of shame, or a care to the fact that he's continually contradicting himself. That's part of the fun of it, after all--and is that a twinkle in his red eyes? Perhaps if Sheena hadn't been so quick to hide the fact that she's laughing, she'd have seen it.

The question itself isn't as strange as it seems, though. Jade shakes his head. "Not at all. I've already met several people here from a variety of different worlds. I myself come from a planet called Auldrant, specifically the country of Malkuth. And yourself?"