[Minakami -- actively in the process of picking his book up as he's about to get back to it and let Tamamori talk to Andy -- lowers. the covers back down. and turns over to his friend.]

When you say "weird dreams..."

[Besides this, Andy's blunt description of her world does pique his curiosity. He really has no idea what the world beyond his country looks like outside of the newspapers or imported books -- for whatever reason, his reincarnated lives have stayed within a rough geographic region -- but he has a hard time imagining Japan is the only place with strange phenomena.]

This is, at least nominally, our afterlife, despite the-- futuristic nature of it. I wouldn't be so arrogant as to think that Westerners or foreigners would "default" to our cosmology. So...