Responsibility: discharged. After all, it's not like he could actually be hurt.

"You're short, so it's safer if you take a boat." Need also takes a boat, but as she's pretty tall she can stand in quite a bit more of the Swamp. "But I'd wager those can get burnt. Use your best judgement. Assuming you have that kind of thing."

Hanako is at least resilient enough that she thinks she can get away with prodding like that.