User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-25281081-20140930021259/@comment-189.83.137.24-20140930130948

I believe the 'He's not dead is he?' is about someone being killed near our player. If he still doesn't know about the assassin/templar war that could be a proper reaction to it.