He's clearly unused to that sort of praise, cheeks going slightly pink as he rubs at the back of his neck and mutters something about how no, really, it's fine, Tonbokiri doesn't have to go that far at all-- but then there's the mention of the squad, and that brings his attention back to the conversation.

"-right, right, that's where I've seen you before! We just haven't really met outside of that, have we..."

And looking back to Tonbokiri, he adds, "If I knew you guys knew each other I'd have mentioned something about it already. Sorry we couldn't all get together under better circumstances, but you know--" A vague gesture at the snow left where those knights used to be. "Those guys are surprisingly hard to dodge?"