[Of what his legion had been, perhaps. Even before its ultimate dissolution, the ongoing civil war and the losses at the hands of those in Anima's thrall had left the Ist very much not what it ought to have been.
But that pales in the wake of the offer that follows. It's not surprising, or not as much as it could be (he knows the first Emperor of Garlemald was a soldier too), but it's still not something that he would have expected either. And yet... he knows very well that there are hardly any other people who happen to be familiar with gunblades in Avalon, and for all that the offer is unexpected he knows, too, that he'd be all the more a fool for saying no.]
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But that pales in the wake of the offer that follows. It's not surprising, or not as much as it could be (he knows the first Emperor of Garlemald was a soldier too), but it's still not something that he would have expected either. And yet... he knows very well that there are hardly any other people who happen to be familiar with gunblades in Avalon, and for all that the offer is unexpected he knows, too, that he'd be all the more a fool for saying no.]
If you're offering.