[Jade, as was his custom, is an attentive listener, smiling all the while as Komaeda gets into the meat of the information he needs. When the waiter drops by, he ends up ordering an earl grey tea for himself, then goes back to metaphorically drinking in the other's words.]

That is a noble way of going about things. [Information is a researcher's lifeblood after all, and giving such out freely certainly can get as detrimental as with sharing physical version of the said comparison.] By the sound of it though, it seems that we Otherworlders are at a disadvantage in this information trade.

[Understandably so, considering how this foreign world plays by its own rules and how they can be at the mercy of the local bureaucracy.]

Do pardon me for going on a slight tangent, but would you believe there's some credence to the possibility that they don't see us as anything more than convenient tools in their information master race, more so than their fellow locals? [His tone remains cheery despite the gloomy insinuation behind his words.] I could be reading too much into the matter, but if there's any sort of discrimination going on with regard to the matter in the realm of research, I'd certainly like to be aware of it.