[ Right now, Rezo doesn't mind the wannabe cool guy act. It's not like it's entirely a post-chimera-trauma development, and he has to remind himself not to smile too widely over it.
A soft half-laugh at Zelgadis's talk of his friends, however, should be permissible. ]
So I've observed.
[ On the whole, Rezo actually appreciates Zelgadis's friends. Partly because they're evidence that Zelgadis's life hasn't fully diminished into a wasteland of lonesome suffering, and partly because at the end of the day Lina and her companions have repeatedly saved the world that Rezo painfully wants to see.
This does not mean that he was not frustrated by them at various points in various ways- whether it's because they would not cooperate and give him the accursed Philosopher's Stone he has been waiting for over a century for this or because they were trying to get him to cooperate with their demands while he was half-dazed from the Hellmaster's Jar and busy trying to keep the Dark Lord under wraps. Sometimes emotions don't always mesh with what's objectively right or wrong.
But still, Rezo is grateful. ]
Pokota has mentioned that you're especially close to Princess Amelia these days.
[ Yes, Rezo's in contact with Pokota, which is as baffling to him as it probably is to Zelgadis. All Rezo can say is that while Pokota's temper may be short, so is the amount of time he'll hold onto a grudge. No matter how grievous and permanent the harm that was done. ]
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A soft half-laugh at Zelgadis's talk of his friends, however, should be permissible. ]
So I've observed.
[ On the whole, Rezo actually appreciates Zelgadis's friends. Partly because they're evidence that Zelgadis's life hasn't fully diminished into a wasteland of lonesome suffering, and partly because at the end of the day Lina and her companions have repeatedly saved the world that Rezo painfully wants to see.
This does not mean that he was not frustrated by them at various points in various ways- whether it's because they would not cooperate and give him the accursed Philosopher's Stone he has been waiting for over a century for this or because they were trying to get him to cooperate with their demands while he was half-dazed from the Hellmaster's Jar and busy trying to keep the Dark Lord under wraps. Sometimes emotions don't always mesh with what's objectively right or wrong.
But still, Rezo is grateful. ]
Pokota has mentioned that you're especially close to Princess Amelia these days.
[ Yes, Rezo's in contact with Pokota, which is as baffling to him as it probably is to Zelgadis. All Rezo can say is that while Pokota's temper may be short, so is the amount of time he'll hold onto a grudge. No matter how grievous and permanent the harm that was done. ]