This is greeted by a stunned silence! His brain almost refuses to accept the phrasing, and his very first impulse is to try to spin it. He knows these people talk in circles sometimes, and he had not clocked the Princess as some heartless beast the way some of them so clearly were.

"They're..." he repeats, "not..." His voice is slow, soft, as if turning the words over in his head. And then adrenaline spikes up into his throat. His mind goes blank. All thought of his soul is consumed in the sudden, furious blaze of anger, the realization that Luka said exactly what he means for once.

So he reaches back, fist closed, to uhhh punch the Princess, directly in the nose, as hard as he can.