There were so many different ways he could respond to that but none of them really seemed to work. Like the fact that he was a fighter pilot who fought monsters practically every day. That anything could happen at any time, as happened with their parents. There was no way Tatsuya could make sure nothing ever happened to him, or vice versa.

"I could say the same thing," he replied instead. "It's quite a way from the Aerial Base back to the Fire Phoenix."