"Okay."
"I have a non-joking question that I don't know, fundamentally, how to ask. Is Yoba the sort of thing that's going to do stuff to my life and Pelican Town in a way where it doesn't matter if I believe in him or not, or do junimos only exist as a possibility for fixing the bus for somebody who believes in junimos but then they can fix the bus and everyone sees the bus get fixed, or is Yoba the sort of thing where from the perspective of anyone who doesn't believe in them they're never going to be whacked over the head with Yoba suddenly showing up in person? If you don't know, it's okay to say so. But to me it matters a lot whether Yoba is just out there as a big powerful force in Pelican Town the way that Gus's tavern is there, or something that I need to relate to emotionally in a particular way so the bus gets fixed, or if Yoba is something to believe in and that's all."