[Similarly, when he'd first heard of the code, he had been grateful for the lack of familiar faces there. After finding that altar, though, the implications of their absence weigh more heavily on him than he'd like.

He pauses for a second, attempting to properly organize his thoughts. It's not that he's forgotten to ask about Namazuo himself, but that can come later, after he's answered the questions as well as he can (which incidentally isn't really well at all. He's been cursing himself for his inability to understand things quite often lately.)]

...I still don't really get it, but it's the place where they fish us out from. Kinda like a soup or something, I guess...? We're like, pieces of data that were destroyed when those Flamine guys apparently wiped out everyone's worlds, and that's basically the place where they're fixed and restored and - stored, I guess. Maybe for repair later.

[Maybe not. He doesn't know that much.]