If someone wants to cover their face, then that's fine by him. He tended to focus more on body language, tone, and eye contact more than anything else to begin with. Words are cheap, after all.

"Ah, it... wasn't to destroy him, unfortunately. That was... handled by Jonathan, the mask was destroyed to keep that from happening again." As far as he's aware, he doesn't know the entire story behind the stone mask at this point. Maybe in the future.

Somehow he can't stop a small smile from settling on his face, slowly shrugging in a smooth motion and starting to walk once again. "Sounds about right, after all that we'd seen, I wouldn't think him the type to frighten easily anymore. ... Chikage?" Of course he focused on that.