Hajime stood his ground, making no move to advance or retreat. "So it is." No, he didn't seem to think five months was a very long time at all. It wasn't, really, even if a lot had happened in those five months. He'd made more than a few steps down that long road towards humanity. "They've shown signs of changing. It's a very...eclectic bunch we have here. A bit of a challenge for the little one." Even if Hajime privately had to wonder about the sense of bringing in things like world destroyers.

At the name, well, there was no masking the flicker of surprise--of recognition--across Hajime's face. "I'm Hajime Aikawa." He did not know how best to continue. It was one thing when it was simply a talk in which one was feeling out another monster entering one's territory, but it was another thing entirely when the newcomer was quite possibly related to someone one knew. And it explained the similarity. "You know Natalie, then?" For she hadn't referred to her father as anything other than Father around him.