"...vanished..." Well, that's interesting. "No idea to where or why? Or who might have taken them?" He juggles the options of either the headmistresses or maybe whatever had taken them to this island in the first place - probably the latter, unless the two are one and the same. He hadn't gotten that impression previously, though. "No sort of evidence beyond..." He hesitates for a moment before repeating, "- that 'upgrade ring' and 'memory charm'?" Upgrade ring's been mentioned, but memory charm - he remembers a dream or something, but...

It takes him a moment to remember that if he wants to keep his cover as a perfectly normal human for the moment, then he has to at least pretend that seeing other people's sadness affects him. He slips a look of concern onto his face and adds quietly, "...hey, you alright?"