[ there's a little huff. ] It helped that I had a lot of the parts and plans from Robota. Building the main component was easy. It was just adding the upgrades to him that took more fine-tuning.

[ but he nods along to that...and he peers at kazuki curiously again. ]

...are you saying that because you don't want to be a burden in general, or because you think you shouldn't add to the workload of someone younger than you? [ it's a light question, and he doesn't really expect an answer seeing how he addresses the rest. ] I'm surprised and I'm not surprised. The ship's falling apart every day with something new. It's probably hard for them to keep up with it all at this point.