He was right, of course. Simultaneously he spoke truthful sense, and blew his own suggestion right out of the water.
"I always was told that I was too trusting." X said with a small laugh. "And you're right. I don't know anything about you, short of what you've told me."
He felt his bad hand start to throb as he navigated along the walls, but the rush he was feeling in the back of his head almost pushed it to the back of his mind. It was almost like liquid heat was going through his limbs; to describe it in words was impossible.
Still, he found himself smiling, his tone pleasant: "But if you wanted to deceive me, wouldn't you have tried using a cover story a lot more plausible? If you wanted to seem reliable and keep the 'future' angle, for example, you could have just said that you were a Maverick Hunter in the future. Why go so far and tell something like that if all you were going to do was trick me? At the first sign of confusion, you would have changed your story, wouldn't you?"
He didn't wait for Harpuia to reply. He went on:
"But you didn't, which shows to me that even if you may not have told me the whole story, you've been truthful so far in everything you have told. And putting that aside, you wouldn't have given me that warning if you didn't care."
And Harpuia helped him. After he hurt his hand, after he did reckless things, he could have just left him there. If he wanted to take advantage of him, he could have at that moment. All he had done so far was help him, protect him, and take care of him.
Why go out of his way? Regardless of what Harpuia said, his actions already told X all he needed to know about his character, even if, admittedly, he didn't know everything about him.
"I think I have more than enough reason to consider you 'worthy' as you put it." Though really, worthy? Since when did people have to be worthy of X's trust and friendship? Regardless of what Harpuia said, he couldn't see himself as the great man that his future self could very well have been. All this talk was just a little bit out of X's element. "Just from what we've been through already."
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"I always was told that I was too trusting." X said with a small laugh. "And you're right. I don't know anything about you, short of what you've told me."
He felt his bad hand start to throb as he navigated along the walls, but the rush he was feeling in the back of his head almost pushed it to the back of his mind. It was almost like liquid heat was going through his limbs; to describe it in words was impossible.
Still, he found himself smiling, his tone pleasant: "But if you wanted to deceive me, wouldn't you have tried using a cover story a lot more plausible? If you wanted to seem reliable and keep the 'future' angle, for example, you could have just said that you were a Maverick Hunter in the future. Why go so far and tell something like that if all you were going to do was trick me? At the first sign of confusion, you would have changed your story, wouldn't you?"
He didn't wait for Harpuia to reply. He went on:
"But you didn't, which shows to me that even if you may not have told me the whole story, you've been truthful so far in everything you have told. And putting that aside, you wouldn't have given me that warning if you didn't care."
And Harpuia helped him. After he hurt his hand, after he did reckless things, he could have just left him there. If he wanted to take advantage of him, he could have at that moment. All he had done so far was help him, protect him, and take care of him.
Why go out of his way? Regardless of what Harpuia said, his actions already told X all he needed to know about his character, even if, admittedly, he didn't know everything about him.
"I think I have more than enough reason to consider you 'worthy' as you put it." Though really, worthy? Since when did people have to be worthy of X's trust and friendship? Regardless of what Harpuia said, he couldn't see himself as the great man that his future self could very well have been. All this talk was just a little bit out of X's element. "Just from what we've been through already."