"Huh." Niikura's head slowly tilted to the side as he considered Harvey's answer. He would have been able to tell? How? Was he supposed to look a certain way? Based on what he'd been told previously, the result of completing all of the basement's challenges wasn't necessarily pretty. So...maybe he was supposed to look a little more depressed or angry.

Actually, he could have easily been either of those at the moment, but Niikura excelled at creating a desired persona, and even though he could sense that Harvey wasn't interested in his goings-on for suspicious reasons, he didn't trust the man enough yet to actually reveal how he was feeling. It was probably going to be the death of him some day, but that was alright: he didn't fear death, for one thing.

"Have you talked to Shiina recently?" It didn't hurt to ask; Harvey already knew that Niikura was always keeping a weather eye out for her. She probably wouldn't be pleased that he was snooping around in his own way, but he figured she would be more honest, just a little bit more, with people that weren't him. It was kind of like stabbing himself in the foot because it wasn't too much of a stretch to guess the real, dismal truth, but Niikura wanted confirmation, however painful it might be.

If she hadn't been honest, well...birds of a feather flocked together, as the saying went.