[ Eight. Eight?? He knows that it's a different world and society is right fucked and all that, but eight?! Izō almost spits out his mouthful of sake and almost misses the rest of his complaints entirely because he's too caught up on the fact Lalli was eight years old. ]

Eight?! They started trainin' ya at eight?! I was fuckin' around with a sword by myself at that age, no one was 'bout to train me for it!

[ A lot of things started making sense, though. ]

Jeez, no wonder you're as good as you are at what ya do, huh?