Oh, I didn't break those bokoblins' heads open. It was more like— [and he mimes sliding a blade into his own neck.] But I have had to split someone's skull open with an axe or a sword, a time or two.

[That is a very gory thing to have just casually dropped into conversation like that while eating watermelon. It's quite possible Edward has been around other criminals a bit too long.]

Wales might as well be a different world from Japan even without my being from a very different time, you're not wrong about that. [But he listens avidly, munching away on his watermelon. If he thinks back to his younger years he can recall days spent playing with his friends, pretending to be a king, a knight, a sailor, thinking up games a little like Suikawari to stave off the boredom. So maybe it's not all that different.]

I find it comes natural to me. [A cocksure little smile.] Did you play this game often, when you were young?