Maybe, but I could be the same me, too. If you don't know, isn't it better to give people hope that the people who leave are still alive?

[You'd better -believe- he's thinking about the conversation he had with Kairi right now. She'd been upset thinking that Sora had died--and even if he had even if Riku didn't care if he had, it was still better to see Kairi hopeful.]

You mean like the flower deck, or the caverns. Right? Things that can't logically be a part of a ship but are somehow here.