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He didn't respond right away because he was really confused what that girl said.  Look, he had enough issues with his English/common/whatever vocabulary to even think about other languages even existing.  She could have said his sister was a potato and it would have made about as much sense as it did.  Okay, yeah, the mom or whatever said "gone" but he wasn't as convinced that was necessarily the case. 

Blinkblink. Okay whatever, uh.  Yeah he should actually respond instead of staring in confusion for a few seconds.  Uh.  Yeah. -- No. That's it.  Say hi to Mahler I guess. Bye.  And with that he turned and started trotting off west to put some mountains between himself and Elysium.  Or at least, that was his plan assuming he wasn't stopped.

Let's list the things Mal has kind of forgotten to do through this whole thing: introduce himself, be kind and respectful to everyone (questionable), tell them where he'll be if Brillo shows up, thank them, wait for their reply to politely depart.  Yeah, he's great at this.