[;-; substituting obfuscation for competence again, but this is me trying to proceed on the Mikodez's-cover-being-blown subplot, since Sasha being elliptical about his weapons training/nicknaming him Mishka has alerted him to there being a file on him (and this resistance being organized enough to have Shuos files on him).
His deliberate misunderstanding of "little fox" in Ashari's message was meant to provoke them into a sort of acknowledgement about his real identity, since there hasn't been a confrontation about it yet. If they're at all inclined to hash it out before descending on the Nirai station, that is. Keeping him in a morass of uncertainty could work too.
talifabian hand to heart I would never so much as feed a tracker granola bar to Ankat's pup.]