"Let me guess, even before your Nobel Peace prize, or the Nobel prize, you won the hell out of first place in other robotics competitions throughout your school career." This is a week after receiving the golden coin and title discreetly.

He brushes off her words though he almost tells the story of how he started out in an entirely different field of robotics. And it's not worth mentioning (maybe not yet) that he built the implants the surgeons had given him. "Would you like to yell a little louder? I don't think the people in the back heard you." 

It was by chance that he had seen her at the Mediterranean Garden. She was finishing her spicy beef salad when he spooked her, sitting down at the other side of her table. "Well it was an amazing victory. If you're going to win you might as well do it in one fell swoop across the board." Interrupting him she says, 'just take the complement'.