Well okay, war sounds like a great reason not to want to be somewhere, even if Kiriya doesn't recognize any of the names being thrown around. And he can definitely tell when a subject has been very firmly changed, but that's fine, he can run with it.

"Nothing so dramatic," he says with a flash of a grin. "I liked the puzzle of it. Figuring out how the body works, and all." It's at least part of why he'd gone into the disciplines he had, even if the other parts are a little less flattering.