"Uh... Y-yeah. Metaverse is... was? A sort of... World of thought and cognition. Some of the denizens of that place gave a bunch of us an app on our phones, so we could get in and help them solve some problems. When I first got here, all it would do is take me through portals once I got close enough. Goro was after all that ended, when we lost connection to the place - app vanished until I woke up here, so I thought..." That it had been gone for Goro too.
"I guess he still has it?"
"Mm..."
Nanami didn't exactly understand what he was saying--but if it was a way for Goro to exit the ship without them. Without backup. Without people with experience...
...Maybe he'd felt a little trapped.
"Has...he...always had that sort of tendency? To not care about his own well-being, or is that new?"
Sure, when they picked him up, he was severely underweight(he had a decent amount of meat on his bones now), and she recalled him intentionally hurting himself with a thorned plant that they had.
She and Sayuri were only listening, but she could infer that much at least.
