Talk about a laundry list of things that flew right over Saitō's head. Although the parts he could manage to parse out were...certainly something.

After a (perhaps slightly awkward) pause, he returns to Billy's question. "In my time, on the other hand, guns are being more widely adapted by military forces, supplanting swords." Although his tone of voice is as flat and even as always, there's a faint twinge of something just barely suppressed in his expression - bitterness? "The samurai's relevance is being called into question in the face of modern warfare."

Modern warfare in this case being very, very relative.

"The most advanced technology available in my homeland has been imported from the west, so I confess that I'm familiar with very little of it." Not that it would do much to prepare him for anything here, either.