His head comes up quickly. "Hm? What about me?" What were they talking about, again? Oh right. "There's no one here that I know. As far as I can tell, there never has been."

He's wrong about that, but only slightly. No one here in five months has ever mentioned meeting another pirate, let alone anyone by name. Law decides that's the question to answer, rather than reveal anything about why he was asking after the dead.