Of course she doesn't recognize the name. She can't recall Duo having brought it up before, but from context it sounds like it must have been one of his friends from back when he was younger. And if Duo is saying he kept the little ones safe.. Maybe a little like a leader of the pack, or just one of the older children? She'd ask Duo what happened to him if it wasn't for the fact that she's sure the answer wouldn't be too pleasant. And in that case she wouldn't want to remind him of it when the playground part clearly seems like a better memory.

Alice puts the filled up bucket upside down on the sand, but rather than just lifting it up, she suddenly summons an odd-looking tea pot into her hands out of the blue, smashing it down hard on top of the bucket before making it vanish again.

She just talks on calmly too as she does so, like it's just no big deal. Random violence, totally normal.

"It sounds like all of you did manage to get by though." She lifts the bucket - and apparently that smash was the way to go, since her turret comes out perfectly whole. "Even though it was in your own way."