H-how could you tell? Is it really that obvious?

[Upon thinking on it, he shakes his head.]

Maybe it's more like...I'm surprised you didn't mention it sooner. Yeah. That's right. I'm a soldier, too, and I have been for a few years now. But we lost. There's nothing left anymore.

[He's an actual child soldier from a doomed timeline, after all. The only reason he's alive is because he hopped to an adjacent one.]