Being fully teleported or transported really was disorienting, especially at first, Ritsuka was all too familiar with that. So even if she noticed, she didn't say anything. Besides, there were more important and immediate matters at hand.

"Not by myself. Most of the time when I'm here I avoid the monsters. But I've been up against plenty of giants before in my world."

She said it all entirely matter-of-factly, like that wasn't particularly impressive. Because, well, for her, something like this really was pretty run of the mill. And while she'd figured this would be a bit of a challenge for James, Ritsuka was pretty confident that the two of them could handle it.

'It', of course, being a huge, round, red giant of a monster snoozing away in a small clearing. The ground around it littered with refuse, from fruit peels to animal bones.

"These are called hinox. They apparently mostly stay in the woods, but they'll attack people who come near them."

Which posed quite the problem when the locals needed to hunt or gather firewood.