I preferred when our enemies were straight-forward about their intentions to when they offered the facade of reprieve only as bait for such a trick.

[It makes it an awful lot more difficult for him to look at anything here and take it for what it is, after all. And beyond even that...Saitou is earnest to a fault. There are few things he dislikes as much as a lack of honesty about one's intentions.

But Souji is right about one thing: it doesn't really matter now.

He closes his eyes, a soft sigh escaping him. A well-honed sense of paranoia might be an important survival skill, especially if this place has anything in common with the one he just escaped from...but jumping at shadows is tiring.]