He rolled his eyes at Yohji. "You know what I mean. He's from your time." He really didn't like the idea that he was going to grow up to be somebody who would get that reaction out of Yohji, but seeing as they'd only made up such a short time ago, he didn't think this was perhaps the best time to mention it.

"And exactly. I'm from further back. Would it make more sense to take a person from the peak? If time isn't an issue, and it's obviously not. So why not take him instead of me?" Assuming, of course, that he hadn't been horribly disfigured or crippled or something, but Omi was pretty sure one of the others would have mentioned that.