[...he just kind of sighs and there's a blip of disappointment. and also mild ??? at blanca because wow, would not have guessed.]

It's fine. You're not the first person to tell me something and say you can't tell me where it came from. [but that doesn't seem to deter him.]

Anyway...I just wanted to tell you you're right. People are being assigned to kill other people by their leaders. I don't have proof that that's exactly what happened last Thursday, but the set-up was too similar to what happened with Virid. He's the one who told me he was asked to kill Hajime.