It helps that the physical landscape of Jeopardy has hallmarks of Knock Out's homeworld with the desert barrenness, so perhaps he's simply more predisposed to the region enough to put up with the city's oddity.

He doesn't miss the brisk way she answers, and he's taken back to the day on the Heropa beach right after he'd arrived, when Riptide had asked him a variant of the same question, and Knock Out had answered in much the same way, and for probably the same reasons. The answer was yes, but the given answer was no, and there were reasons for that.

So he doesn't pry.

"One from my world, but not someone I knew before coming here," he answers, electing to simplify things and not get into the whole alternate timelines problem. "But it's a big universe."