[After he got distracted with texting his boyfriend, he'll look up at the phone. He's....not going to touch the question about the future with a 20 foot pole, so he'll focus on the second part]

I'm not sure. We should probably at least ask him about it, just to be safe.

[And since he can tell these two are nervous about the whole presence of Eizen]

We don't have to offer ourselves as his vessel, of course.