[On any other day, Jia Xu might have been willing to argue with him about that - or at very least debate the point that not all historians were terrible company, considering that he'd managed to meet one that was tolerable (if not a little too similar to an overeager puppy, at times).

But he had never managed to meet another version of himself before. Oh, he'd heard tales, certainly - that there was a female Oda Nobunaga and Guan Yu walking around Orochi's world somewhere, but he hadn't thought that he'd ever be faced with a double of his own.]

Ahaha, what an interesting situation we find ourselves in. [His lips twisted into a smirk, and he watched the other man, pausing for effect before continuing onwards.]

I never thought that I, of all people, would meet a version of myself from another world here. What magic the serpent king must have conjured up, to make this a possibility.