"Kuja..." Was he really absolving himself of all responsibility? Zidane did understand somewhat, after what Garland did to him, but Kuja had made his own choices, too. He hadn't been fighting Garland out of the goodness of his heart. If things had gone a little differently... Now was not the time to press the issue too much, he knew. He hadn't forgotten Kuja's earlier outburst, but he couldn't just let it go. "I know you did a lot of what you did because you had to." A lot of, he stressed. Not all. "But that's kinda not what I meant either."

Okay, this already wasn't going so well.

"Uh, hold on, wait a sec, who are these 'evil' people?" He wasn't sure he liked the sound of that. No, scratch that. He was sure he didn't like it. "Is it really a good idea to rely on them at all? Maybe we can back off on the whole 'evil' thing and focus more on the regular people here."