[Knives preferred things to operate on the basis of common sense. And it looks like he very much wants to point out that a shirt won't help if someone wants to hurt you either, but after a moment he ... decides not to.

He wasn't certain Vash would supply an answer that would align with his own sense of what made sense and what didn't.]

I guess we'll find out when we get there.

[Teleporters! If those DID work, that'd be pretty neat.]

I don't really think it's going to take me that long to get that big. And it is really old. Super-old. Humans live only half that long!

[...Which means if Vash was Vash and wasn't lying through his teeth, which Knives hadn't decided on yet, then Rem would likely.. be long gone. It's a very, very unsettling thought.]

If you're really Vash and not just someone lying - lying's bad you know - then ... how old was Rem, when she..

[If Vash is a future Vash, then.. then maybe knowing how long they had with her would be a good thing. Then they could prepare.]