[He stared at him, honestly at a loss for a beat, because he wasn't stupid, and he gave a watery laugh, shaking his head anyway.]

You're- you're basing this off the pokemon I named after the Nidaime? I have a Hashi too you know. [He closed his eyes for a moment though, shaking his head sharply.]

So you- you think I didn't die. I definitely thought I died. But you... don't. You think I.. what things are you even saying I did?

[His voice had gotten very quiet, and there was a bit of morbid curiosity fueling the questions, which were spoken somewhere between hollowly and with an edge of hurt.]