[ Ben tends to think of himself as someone who is difficult to surprise. But someone saying in complete seriousness that they're a ninja? Yeah, that throws him for a moment. Because Genji sure does, like, have a sword, and he isn't cracking up or saying he really had Ben going there for a moment. So... he means it. ]

Wow. That's... awesome. I've never met a real-life ninja before.

[ Said the real-life superhero with powers that let him summon giant eldritch murder monstrosities from another dimension. But all that is just his life. Just boring or awful. Ninjas? Ninjas are cool. They use cleverness and skill and precision. Even when they are forced to kill, it is quick and so very clean.

Ripping people limb from limb with giant tentacles is a very messy business. It is not quiet, or skilled, or neat. So yeah, Ben's geeking out a bit. ]

I don't know. Maybe? I sort of got to 16, died, kicked around as a ghost for a decade and a half and showed up here just sort of... 30 and alive again. It's so weird having a pulse after that long that anything else that's changed is small by comparison, y'know?

[ No point in hiding the whole dying thing now. Might as well answer what Genji was probably already wondering about and explain how he is alive now. ]

Would you like some coffee beans to take home? As a thank you, for returning this?