"Thank you."

Is there anything more he can say? No, not without getting personal. So instead, he just thanks Erwin, glad to move on. If asked, he'd firmly deny deserving anything such as gentleness. Jeep, certainly - the little creature has never done anything wrong in his life.

But Hakkai...?

"I didn't think it was, until my arrival here. No one in Trench had gone through such a thing. Perhaps it's something to do with this world itself."