"Leaving aside the question of train sentience that we don't agree on, that part doesn't matter so much in context." Senku mused. He took one of the hunks of meat and began cubing it for the stew.

"When you arrive, you can't get anything with points, you rely on everyone else to look out for you." Senku didn't comment on what he thought about that, or what he thought about how that was working.

"It's probably, definitely, a reward. Or it's a carrot." Senku explained. "They offer you something nice so you do what they want you to. Everyone gets points so randomly, it makes no sense at all how it works. Some people get a lot of points, some people don't, and we don't know how to maximize the point output, nor are we particularly well organized, so it leads to people looking out for themselves."