[The small chuckle that comes out of him at her response to his story is accompanied by a small cough, one he fights down to keep it from evolving into a full on raspy hack, but it was worth it regardless. It seems that Lumine caught onto his meaning behind the tale, which he's glad for, but in the future it sounds like he'll have to tell her a story that's a little more metal and horrifying to meet the expectations she seems to have of his home country. Which, luckily, he has plenty of.]

When you put it like that, it almost seems like you're scolding me again, comrade.

[But it's said with a smile, clearly showing his appreciation for her care and concern for him. It helps put him more at ease, more relaxed in how he can approach her from here going forward. Before, in Inazuma, she'd kept her worry to a minimum, at least in front of him. But as he told her before, he's flattered either way, even more so now that she's been more open to him about her feelings about his safety.

Which is why he feels a lot better about saying what he says next:]

But you fought it too, right? Your role in all this was fending off the whale from the Primordial Sea from attacking Fontaine. I should be saying the same thing to you. Facing it down, even if worn down a little by then, couldn't of been easy. I'm positive that's the same whale from my dream...so I'm glad that you've made it out safely as well.

[He pauses for a brief moment, before discarding his hesitation to say softly-]

...I'm not sure what I would of done if I found out you hadn't made it out alive.