Initially, it is intended to remind the reader of the youth, and perhaps naivety, of the group of young boys, that their perverted sense of justice and their ideal of “Objectivity” is simply a product of their childishness. However, on the contrary, when we examine the Leader's question in more detail, the meaning changes completely. Three words, with no added pleasantries or unnecessary language, just what is necessary to get the victim to drink the poison that will kill him. It is the essence of objectivity. The leader does not say anything if it is not necessary for their cause and this suggests that these boys, dismissed as simple children by all the adults around them, possess more cunning and intelligence than the rest of the group.