He slows as Yousuke gets ahead of him and faces him, stopping with a hand on his hip. Just like his physical body, some things have not changed.

"There are still people who have been here longer than me."

But not many of them--James and Philip and maybe Evelyn. If you can't count a group on more than one hand, it hardly counts for the purposes of comparison.

His expression shifts to his usual "joking" deadpan. "Kanji's here now, and he's still taller than me."