[That's it. That's all he can argue in his own defense, and he wouldn't bother with much more, anyway. In the face of her building anger, Gilgamesh appears numb. At the time, it had been quite an amusing farce, one he sneered to think of, but now...
Now, everything seems like one big waste, knowing what he could've had for a Master—but never would, not back home. Just a doddering magus overinvested in himself and his own affairs and a snake he helped foster, one that would someday become so poisonous that in another world and another time neither of them would ever get to see he'd lust after madness itself. A madness beyond wiping everything clean which even he could not espouse.
Gilgamesh just stares at her, eyes blank. It seems this is the extent of explanation she will receive on the matter.]
no subject
[That's it. That's all he can argue in his own defense, and he wouldn't bother with much more, anyway. In the face of her building anger, Gilgamesh appears numb. At the time, it had been quite an amusing farce, one he sneered to think of, but now...
Now, everything seems like one big waste, knowing what he could've had for a Master—but never would, not back home. Just a doddering magus overinvested in himself and his own affairs and a snake he helped foster, one that would someday become so poisonous that in another world and another time neither of them would ever get to see he'd lust after madness itself. A madness beyond wiping everything clean which even he could not espouse.
Gilgamesh just stares at her, eyes blank. It seems this is the extent of explanation she will receive on the matter.]