Souji continues to peer at Carlos, expression neutral, turning those words over in his mind. Based on their last conversation, he has an idea of what the problem is, but it's a few seconds before he decides to give voice to it. If he's right, he still has no idea if it's something Carlos would want to talk about, or that he would want to talk about it with Souji, anyway. They only just acquaintances, after all.

"Is Cecil gone?"