Okay, let me rephrase that. I wasn't gonna take off with them. I was just making sure that they didn't get themselves killed. [Geez, tough audience. He never thought he'd come to miss the fact that pretty much everyone in his city knew who he was, but being interrogated about his height is actually a little more pleasant than being accused of being a kidnapper.

What would he even do with them anyway? He'd go deaf before picking up a ransom.

He deflates a little once Shinji mentions the government, and merely offers the guy a mournful shrug.] I have no idea what the government really wants us to do here. All I know is that I'm not about to just watch people get hurt if I can do anything to help stop it.