[He keeps in step with the taller man.]

I've read novels with similarities before, but you're right. [Being a reader had helped him back because the situation he was experiencing was of the same novel he had read for a good portion of his life.

Here was completely new and foreign. He didn't like being in a new place with barely anything to work with. It made him anxious.] What places are you more accustomed to Alucard-ssi?