[Ishimaru takes a moment to listen to all that, though he isn't making eye contact with the device; he's looking somewhere else off to the side, somewhere above the right corner of it, though he doesn't seem to have zoned out any - just thinking.]

...I see.

[Because honestly, he does.]

I spent all of my life preparing for a career that doesn't even exist here, so I know what you're talking about - it wasn't anything like alchemy, though. I guess that's a...power, where you come from, and not some sort of advanced chemistry?