[ This is a good question to ask, and he answers if only to reassure Hijikata that he is not, in fact, someone that's come over expressly to kill him. ]

...Another one of the supposed 'refugees' who's been thrown in here without rhyme or reason.

[ That might as well be a complaint and not an explanation, though, so he appends: ] Adolf Reinhardt. [ a beat... ] I can at least fight whatever might come at us, so. There's that.

[ He makes a vague motion to something that looks like a miniature dragon with a bee stinger, buzzing around... this place sucks. ]