He brings one of his shoulders up and lets it drop in what must be the most half-hearted shrug in the world. Somehow, he doubts that the city planners are keeping this close an eye on everything, grateful enough that there's people who are helping out in the first place, so that who cares if the colors clash a little?

He can't just shrug off that other question, but after some internal debate over whether or not he should reply in Japanese, he chooses to do so. It was always the more comfortable of the two languages, his mother tongue.

"Yeah. People only wear this stuff in the hospital," he says, but doesn't automatically attribute it to being a Japanese thing. Maybe if other people wore masks, they wouldn't cough and sneeze everywhere and he'd stop catching colds every other week? It'd be nice if masks caught on.