Well, that was....a suspiciously specific avoidance of the question. Jigen packs the idea away for later; even if the guy is trying to fish it doesn't mean he wants Jigen specifically. He'd made that clear on day one, actually.

"I could eat," he says, equally noncommittal. He doesn't want to say he didn't spend a cent of the money. "And at least this shit world's real. If I wanted to live in dreams all day I'd go find something harder than liquor to hit."