You're a Asaemon (A monitor keeping watch over a particular prisoner in the anime) and your on a boat filled with prisoners going to the cursed island filled with monsters and the elixir of life called "Shinsenkyō" and you are assigned to the infamous Gabimaru the Hollow and with your hand resting on your katana at your side you see Gabimaru sigh and look up at you while he's sitting down on the deck next to other prisoners and he speaks in a indifferent and apathetic voice "Are we close?"