Do you not enjoy me calling you that? Given that it’s nothing but accurate, how strange that would be.
Oh, I bet you were spending all your hours helping those who needed it. Weren’t you? Were you rushing in to save those poor families, or were you hurrying about a safehouse, plugging up wounds and telling everyone that it’ll be all right?
Me? I was simply watching everything unfold from a distance. Occasionally poking my head into the aftermath of what followed, but that’s neither here nor there.
The point being is that this needn’t always be an interrogation. A simple reply and I’m out of your hair, and you may help as many as you so please without further issue.
[ No, Prompto hadn't. Not in as much detail, even if the soldier had been featured in passing. Far from a purposeful omission, and not enough to change Noctis's view on what must have happened. ]
Why?
You'd only help him if it was convenient or useful to you. So what's your plan for him?
To answer that question, I would much like to know what it is, exactly, that he told you. About his stay in Niflheim, that frozen wasteland of a place.
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But you’re not dead, are you? So the point is moot. Besides that, I thought I made what I wanted very clear.
[For you to respond, dumb boy.]
How busy were you, honestly?
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[ One more thing to irk him. ]
What I'm doing isn't your business
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Oh, I bet you were spending all your hours helping those who needed it. Weren’t you? Were you rushing in to save those poor families, or were you hurrying about a safehouse, plugging up wounds and telling everyone that it’ll be all right?
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As opposed to whatever the hell you were doing? I'll take it.
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The point being is that this needn’t always be an interrogation. A simple reply and I’m out of your hair, and you may help as many as you so please without further issue.
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If you want me to check in with you and cooperate then why don't you back the hell off of him?
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You're right. I did do more than just give him a nasty bruise. I saved him from that soldier on the rooftop. Or did he not tell you that much?
[To be fair, it's not like Ardyn really did it out of the goodness of his heart.]
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Why?
You'd only help him if it was convenient or useful to you. So what's your plan for him?
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You answered your own question. It was convenient at the time, little more than that.
Still, I'll not have you snatch the credit out of my hands. He has little reason to complain about a few bruises, all things considered.
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[ He can offer him that concession. Brag to all of your zero friends about your good deed. ]
Yk what I'm asking. You could've killed him in Niflheim and you didn't. Why?
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Now stop fishing for more information from me and answer the question.
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But very well. Prompto was bait. And live bait always attracts a more enthusiastic catch. How is that for a direct answer?
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[ The one he'd expected but needed to confirm. ]
If that's it, we'll talk later.
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I'm sure we will.
Have a nice day, Your Majesty!
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