[He...understands what she's looking for, he really does. He doesn't want to pull all of her hope from her, because hope is important. But he is also the sort of person who would rather have the entire situation laid out in front of him, no matter how painful.

So he'll grant her the same courtesy.]

He has disappeared, like many people before. Attempting to contact his device gets the same message as any of the others.

[A breath, and it's audible, as soft as it is. This is...harder than he expected, somehow. But maybe that's because he'd truly believed Tenka when he said he wouldn't be disappearing again.

And yet here they are again.]

Naturally, I intend to continue to look for him. [....... but. And more softly--] ...Though the others who have disappeared like this have yet to be found.