"Thank you, Takane," Colin says, smiling at her. "That saves me a little bit of trouble."

To say nothing of the fact that it saves him the trouble of trying to do feels. Why are feels so hard?

"Anyway, I don't believe I've actually asked the name of this world. Not that it really matters, since it too was blown up," Colin says. "We're living on chunks of land of a whole bunch of different worlds, but the majority of it seems to be centered on the origination of the incident that took place. Typical region of least resistance, rather common with this sort of reaction."