[Perhaps they were both just a bit slow because it had taken Giyu this long to realize he should share his name. At least they were young now. They could only improve, or not. He would nod slowly hearing the name, there's a look of surprise on his face when being told this boy was an heir. An heir to something that he had no idea what it was but from the way it was said it had to be important.]

Nie Mingjue. [Maybe his pronunciation isn't the best but there is obvious effort being put there.] I think you're right. There's no enough of them to keep watch over everything but this place is all strange. It's wrong.

[He doesn't just mean the modernized areas and things he had come across but even he didn't feel much the same. He knew he wasn't the same. He should be stronger, quicker, yet he wasn't.]