"Oh, come now," Aidou replied with mock sincerity as he took the note, "what's the point of living if you can't memorize morsels of information that may never amount to anything? You never studied very hard in your classes, did you?"

Honestly, though, he didn't. Yet maybe there was something in the word choice...

In a manner of seconds, Aidou had scanned the note, a task made far easier when he possessed eyes suited for reading in the dark. He handed it back with a frown.

"Well, you certainly won't hear me arguing about being pawns, though the amount of useful facts they're dispersing isn't even enough to organize pawns in a collected manner. But if we're agreed, then perhaps we can use this "something more" to connect the dots for ourselves. In the end, it may have something to do with the caverns, after all."