[ oh. well, shit. that's how you get him — just appeal to ryouma's sense of doing things for the right, non-profiteering reasons. that's the way he'd like things to be done anyway, so it's hard to keep arguing the point over curiosity after that. ]

Alright, alright. Swimming's not really a problem for me, but I'm not gonna try and talk somebody out of doing the right thing...

[ fortunately (or is it??), he's starting to believe this guy. ]

What about the rest? If you know useful information, I'm willing to hear you out. Being successful means knowing when to defer to the experts, after all.