[Working together is more than agreeable, and Ren nods silently to signal it. It's nice to have someone at his side to help watch his back again. He's used to working with a team, and he's surprised to find himself missing them so much here, though he'd never wish for any of them to be caught up in this world's dangers after they'd just finished facing their own back home.

Any more of them, at least. Akechi was already here. He misses Akechi too, but that's not really what he wants to be thinking about at the moment.]

Where I'm from, some healers still make medicines with herbs. [He thinks of Dr. Takemi and her custom blends, the questionable clinical trials he participated in to help her refine her formula to cure a very sick girl.] But some use machines. It depends on what's needed for the patient.

[If the machinery here is unfamiliar to her and she's previously worked in a castle, it sounds like her home is much less technologically advanced than 21st century Japan.]

Tell me more about your village?