[He watches as Souji paints the letters on the page with curiosity. During the war he had operated out of Europe, bouncing around France and Germany and sometimes Britain. During that time he had picked up bits of the French and German languages. But he had never been based in Japan or anywhere near it, so the letters were as strange and exotic to him as they would be to any other foreigner.]

What does that mean? [He grins a bit at the added pig and the seemingly childishness of it.]

There's not a day that goes by that I don't pray that's true. It's easier to deal with if you belief there's a reason for it rather then it being just a random act. A fluke.

It's easier for me to deal with when I have a purpose. I'm just trying to figure out what that purpose might be.