I was going to ask you that, too, Junpei-san... If you thought... perhaps we were not the only ones on this ship?

[He's too ye olde to know how to accurately explain this, and it shows on his face, the frustration.]

It's... like a play? Like... [Maybe that's a better way to understand it.] Like when we perform for others at our master's behest. When we're on stage, pretending. The ship is... a stage?