[He will totally be her friend, at least as much as he is with anyone new. It's a little reassuring to him too to see someone of a similar age to him; it isn't as though he has terrible experience with adults or anything, but for the sort of thing that leads to ending up in other dimensions and the like it's definitely been kids who you want on your team.
She's still talking a little too fast and colloquially for him, but he's getting the important words in there. Most of them, anyway. Something about green and water, and that she'll show him where it is, and he's nodding in agreement before oh, an introduction. That's something he knows very well, and so he's able to politely respond--]
It's nice to meet you, Ellie.
[It's always a little awkward to use someone's first name, but that's how Americans are, and so he gives his in turn.]
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She's still talking a little too fast and colloquially for him, but he's getting the important words in there. Most of them, anyway. Something about green and water, and that she'll show him where it is, and he's nodding in agreement before oh, an introduction. That's something he knows very well, and so he's able to politely respond--]
It's nice to meet you, Ellie.
[It's always a little awkward to use someone's first name, but that's how Americans are, and so he gives his in turn.]
My name is Koushirou.