And he was the one being scolded for giving a flippant answer? By rights, they could just call an end to the interview and be done with it now that they'd both answered all the questions, but Sugane found that he needed to ask another.

"What rewards are you talking about?" He certainly wasn't in it for any sort of reward. He wanted to join the program as a way to protect people and nothing more. Yes, there was a certain amount of celebrity that was inevitably going to be involved if he was successful, but that wasn't in any way his motivation.