Axel listens while Sora talks, and the more Sora talks the more absurd the whole thing sounds. He just sort of laughs, shaking his head.
"And carry the one and divide by the square route of pizza and I'm sure it all makes sense," he says, scratching his head. "Riku told me a little about all of that nonsense with Xehanort, too." He hefts a sigh and drops a hand on Roxas' shoulder. "I knew Xemnas had had his eye on you for reasons he never shared, but I didn't realize at the time that there was so much creepy weird bodysnatching and such going on." He shakes his head. "Seems you and I dodged one helluva bullet, defecting," he says to Roxas, and then sits down heavily on the edge of the bed. He looks at Sora with a frown. "Ansem the Wise was the head honcho of my home world," he says, "so I always knew that the whole 'Ansem' angle was BS."
Especially the part where Riku wearing Xehanort's face pretended to be Ansem. That had been a laugh-riot.
"Whadda you know about this 'Keyblade War', though?" he asks then, rubbing his chin. "There's this old legend, where I grew up, about a time long ago when the people of the worlds fought over the Light, and in doing so, the selfishness in their hearts gave rise to Darkness, which then took over the world and swallowed up the Light entirely and split the worlds apart." He shakes his head. "I always thought it was just a legend, an old story to teach kids not to be selfish, but... it's a little uncanny, the way some things seem to have lined up."
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"And carry the one and divide by the square route of pizza and I'm sure it all makes sense," he says, scratching his head. "Riku told me a little about all of that nonsense with Xehanort, too." He hefts a sigh and drops a hand on Roxas' shoulder. "I knew Xemnas had had his eye on you for reasons he never shared, but I didn't realize at the time that there was so much creepy weird bodysnatching and such going on." He shakes his head. "Seems you and I dodged one helluva bullet, defecting," he says to Roxas, and then sits down heavily on the edge of the bed. He looks at Sora with a frown. "Ansem the Wise was the head honcho of my home world," he says, "so I always knew that the whole 'Ansem' angle was BS."
Especially the part where Riku wearing Xehanort's face pretended to be Ansem. That had been a laugh-riot.
"Whadda you know about this 'Keyblade War', though?" he asks then, rubbing his chin. "There's this old legend, where I grew up, about a time long ago when the people of the worlds fought over the Light, and in doing so, the selfishness in their hearts gave rise to Darkness, which then took over the world and swallowed up the Light entirely and split the worlds apart." He shakes his head. "I always thought it was just a legend, an old story to teach kids not to be selfish, but... it's a little uncanny, the way some things seem to have lined up."