“sou ka”/”Is that so?”

そうか
sou ka

Ahh, you can hardly learn Japanese without learning “sou” and the many phrases related to it.

I really don’t know what the “actual” definition of “sou” even is. Funnily enough, I think the closest match in English is the word “so.”

Ordinarily, if you were polite and a little less arrogant than Ion, you would say, “sou desu ka.”

Listen to Ion from Trinity Blood say “sou ka”
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sou = “it is so”

ka = question marker