[Battler being unusually quiet but it's mostly because he's deadeyeing that taboo of his and debating how to phrase things]

... I wasn't killed with everyone else on the island. [said a bit slowly, hesitant.] And the culprit wasn't Aunt Eva.

[pauses and kind of looks down at his wet clothes and the wonky reed basket he still has.]

Some things have happened and I've seen a lot of different ways what happened on Rokkenjima could happen, including what you remember. But it's a little hard to talk about what happened with me, specifically, because of a taboo.