[ ... Usually, she'd try to make up an excuse, but, well, he was from the future where people fought with machines that she was told shouldn't be possible, so it seemed like making up an excuse was pointless.

Besides, even if he wanted to tell people, who'd believe him anyway. ]

Pretty much the complete opposite of what you're used to. Instead of other people... for the most part I had to deal with fighting monsters. Complete with... well, 'magical powers'.