[ Megumi watches with anticipation as Gojo opens his mouth, but those words he had clearly wanted to say simply do not come. So it's like that, then. He's deliberately not sharing, not wanting to get Megumi involved, and it feels like all Megumi can really do about that is accept it. It feels like it's always been this way. There's a sigh, and though his stoic face is unchanging, there's a flicker of some disappointment in his green eyes. He ponders for a second if he should pry deeper, try to pull out those words that were left unsaid before his mentor eased into more casual conversation (as casual as entrapment can get), but like with many matters pertaining to deeper feelings and difficult topics, he ends up leaving it alone. ]

About that ... Do you know about the contracts?

[ He figures that his mentor probably already knows, given how he typically had an answer for everything. ]

Part of the payment I asked for was that you would be freed. Seems it was granted, but not in the way I was hoping.

[ That's telling him the contracts might actually be real, but you have to be careful with the wording. When he wished for his teacher to be free, he didn't specify that he wanted him freed in the living world. ]