[Usopp just shrugs at that, not looking too bothered.]

Hey, you did a lot more than you had to. I appreciate that someone believed me. That's not exactly a normal thing that happens in my life.

[Granted, he does bring a lot of it on himself; it's just, that's how he'd learned how to cope. With life, and being poor, and losing the only family he had. And it just... never went away. The lying. And so, his way of dealing is offered to Koby, even if it was born from desperation as a kid more than anything.

He leans in... leans in... And says, after a dramatic pause:]

I saw, just fake it 'til you make it.