[by now he has had his date with Sanji too so THANK GOD HE IS AWARE THAT "HUMAN" MEANS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. . . TO SOME PEOPLE]

No. Not at all.

[a beat. tentatively, so as not to offend--]

Where I come from, humans are monsters. They're incredibly powerful. . . they can level entire villages if they wanted to. And they're far stronger than even the kingdom's strongest armies.

. . . nobody knows where they come from.