"I don't need it in the contract." Because the truth is that K doesn't trust the city any more than he trusts anything else about this - he certainly wouldn't expect to try to argue any of it. If they really want to do something, really want to put him somewhere or take something from him or do something to him, they'll just do it.

That's all anyone has ever done, or been legally allowed to do with replicants specifically, and that carries over to the glance up at the addition.

"But your name is on the title, or the lease, or whatever it ends up being," he points out.