The art, perfected by Shion Uzuki, of listening to a pile of exposition from another, more learned character, only to recite back one reductive piece of what you heard in a questioning tone. Shion does this an infuriating amount of the time, but once I noticed it, I realized that it happens all over the place.
Examples
How and why these girls are important, and have anything to do with the GPPs, I don't know. But Feb wants them to release the two girls, "for the future of the Realians as well..." Shion repeats that back like the dippy little parrot she is, and Red clarifies that it is for everyone's sakes that the girls be freed from their prison. Wherever that is. Red called for our heroes, and made them wade through their memories so they could save the world and change the future. "Change...the future?" Shion repeats. What did I do to deserve this? - Xenosaga Part 11