Unexpecting to hear such beginning of the conversation Kenji didn't find anything to answer right away. With a surprised smile he looked at his company, then at the fountain. The surprise disappeared from his fase as he found something to answer and in a calm maner leaned his hand on the fountain's edge, watching the fish that was just scared by a Gaul.
"Without luck a prisoner do not have much chanses to succeed against his jailer. Yet, the ones that can not see their freedom will not even try their luck." He turned with his back to the fountain, looking back at his interlocutor. "But if you let them go, no matter how mindless they might seem to you, they will struggle against being captured again. Strongest will fight. Weakest will run. Both is a kind of struggle." An amused smile appeared on his face as he said last part.