[ it suuuuuure is. at the very least, it doesn't look like Raihan has taken any offense to it - the situation isn't great to think about, but he'd rather be the only one that it's happened to than see others go through the same thing. that said, a change of topic is much more welcome conversation. ]

More or less, yeah. We're from the same universe, but totally different sides of the globe - Kanto and Galar are about as far apart as they come.