[Through this whole thing Sakuma listens with his spine ramrod straight and his hands at his sides. Once the siblings are done speaking, his official air doesn't drop, but instead redirects itself.]

Before we were told that the people who couldn't handle this already went dormant again. Does that mean that anyone in Eddan has the potential to awaken? Or was there something about us?

[In other words: why us? And also, "are there NPCs", but he can't ask that.]