...Okay. No heads on the chopping block, I won't tell anyone, I promise. [And.] What, um, what other item can switch factions?

[But, hm. As he listens to the both of them, as much as he hates to broach this topic before they absolutely have to...]

Yeah, so long as we keep it above three, but... Veronica, the information you got last week made it seem like only nine people can make it out of this alive, right? Or... That's a possibility, at least. If that's true... [...] Even if we figure out what to do about Natsuo, even if we get all the objectives finished and evened out... How are we going to pick?

[his anxiety brain going three steps ahead as usual smh]