If that wasn't the response he was expecting, Ginko doesn't show it. Ginko has met plenty of village children with ordinary lives...but he's also seen many that have suffered. Due to famine, or disease, or natural disaster...the influence of mushi, or the lack of it. Some could pose danger to humans, it was true, but an area barren of mushi was typically equally barren of life. Crops wouldn't flourish, and children born to such an area often were frail and sickly.

"I didn't. Or rather, if I have, they didn't recognize me, and I couldn't recognize them, obviously."

His hair and eye color aren't normal, he knows. And while he no longer has the specific knowledge of how they came to be that way, Suguro had suggested long ago that it too was related to his encounter with the Tokoyami. It's as good an explanation as any; he doesn't think about it much, having long since accepted the portion of his life that was lost to him forever.

"Most likely, I was traveling somewhere, but got separated from whoever I was with at the time."

And those people....are either dead or abandoned him intentionally. After all, Suguro had also been able to tell that his condition of attracting mushi had nothing to do with the Tokoyami trapped within him. If he had lived in a village, he would've only brought it the same kind of disasters he did to the village mushi-shi who used him to gain work before shooing him away.

Again, it's not something he spends a lot of time trying to figure it out.