Cole listened as they started to walk, genuinely interested. His hand stayed where it was though, silently insisting Macaque come with them and stay close. Unfortunately, he'd appeared pretty far out into the Segments, and wasn't fully aware of the situation as a whole, at least not past obviously being in the simulation.

"Masks just aren't a thing anymore?" That was the thing that stuck out the most to him, because it definitely explained his lack of a Mask here. "Wait...don't answer that yet. Or about your arm...or how you got Iron's favor..." Those were all huge things that he needed to be sitting for. He could feel it. It was overall a. Lot. "...finding a store to pick up things to cook with shouldn't be hard. And...there's a saying that fits what you just said about most of that...but it's also a terrible joke so I won't say it."