[He could, he suspects, find thirteen darknesses easily enough if he were to try. Finding thirteen darkness who would all agree to the plan that has so recently been foiled would be more difficult. To say little of the fact that there's no way to tell for certain if Kingdom Hearts - and more relevantly, the χ-blade - can even be summoned from where they currently are. But he figures that Riku has at least guessed at some of those difficulties, and even if he hasn't there's little need to mention that he's even so much as considered the possibility of pulling further pawns to his side.
(There's also the question of whether he'd even be capable of wielding the χ-blade as he is, when he hasn't been so much as able to summon No Name since the loss of his heart, but that is something he's even less inclined to mention to Riku.)
Instead, there's a brief moment of silence, and then, as if something has only just occurred to him, he speaks up again.]
However... if your fellow guardians of light are present here, it may be better if they were to hear of this... arrangement from you. Especially those who might not be so inclined to believe the words of a Nobody.
[Much less someone they have fought against so recently, at that.]
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[He could, he suspects, find thirteen darknesses easily enough if he were to try. Finding thirteen darkness who would all agree to the plan that has so recently been foiled would be more difficult. To say little of the fact that there's no way to tell for certain if Kingdom Hearts - and more relevantly, the χ-blade - can even be summoned from where they currently are. But he figures that Riku has at least guessed at some of those difficulties, and even if he hasn't there's little need to mention that he's even so much as considered the possibility of pulling further pawns to his side.
(There's also the question of whether he'd even be capable of wielding the χ-blade as he is, when he hasn't been so much as able to summon No Name since the loss of his heart, but that is something he's even less inclined to mention to Riku.)
Instead, there's a brief moment of silence, and then, as if something has only just occurred to him, he speaks up again.]
However... if your fellow guardians of light are present here, it may be better if they were to hear of this... arrangement from you. Especially those who might not be so inclined to believe the words of a Nobody.
[Much less someone they have fought against so recently, at that.]