Sanzo nods. "Aaa. And I haven't heard of any other Sanzos being here."

That he wishes that a certain one would be is probably not well-concealed, but there's no way that he couldn't want to retrieve his predecessor's sutra.

"Look, it's... my sacred duty to watch over this thing. It's not something that will hurt you." He might be a slacker, but he takes some things deadly serious, and this is one of them. Even his words are somewhat more formal.