[It takes several seconds for Filbo to respond. When he does, it's...it's completely hesitant, like he really, really would have rather nobody to see it]

...it's...something from around five or ten minutes before I died. Haha...just me failing once again, what else.

[Definitely not the trace of the confidence he displayed. The development he underwent during canon was pretty wiped by the utter failure at saving everyone]

I was in an expedition with a friend you didn't see. Those bugs, we came to figure out what we could about those. We didn't...really think we would end wiped out by them a year after arriving.