[The sarcasm is caught and earns Archer a quiet laugh. Kaoru's met plenty of people with white hair who aren't inhuman, after all.]

You were? My... It sounds like things have changed a lot for you since then.

[But it's not exactly an unsaid request for him to keep talking about it, even though there's room for him to do so if he wants.]

Oh! [Definitely some understanding there.] I see... Is that why you can create the sort of swords that you do? I can't say that I've ever met a heroic spirit before - or any sort of spirit at all, to be honest. From the legends, I would have expected them to be a little less... solid.

[But Kaoru knows better than to take legends at face-value too, considering what they say about demons and how inaccurate that is.]