[He sighs, but there's still a smile on his face.] If only Alfred remembered who helped him build his railroads, aru. Honestly, it was that long ago for us Nations. [Don't worry, Cooper, a lot of people who China has talked too find it hard as well.]

[China knitts his eyebrows as he goes back to those times.] Well, they came in all different forms, aru. Some came as black dragons, or fox demons, or even as large trolls wielding wooden clubs.

Fifty years had past since my birth, but because I'm a Nation, I was only eight years old at the time, aru.