[ Does he truly seem like a just person? Wriothesley likes to think of himself as fair, and being the Administrator of Meropide places him on a certain side of the law, but he'd hardly call himself any sort of avatar for justice. He only acted when the previous Administrator cleared his savings, after all. No other injustice sparked him to action. In that sense, he's not terribly different from other Fontanian who looks the other way. Maybe that's why he's largely let go of his resentment for the world. ]

Who knows? I had initially planned to buy my way into a better life. I was doing things his way until he cleared my coupon account in one night. Only then did I challenge him to a duel.

[ Saying it like that, it feels like it happened eons ago, not a handful of years. The interim has been comfortable--the stuff he could only have imagined as a child. In that sense, maybe he does live in a sort of fantasy. But something doesn't sit right, terming it like that. He wouldn't be here now if not for the struggles that he was reborn in. ]

You'd be right, it's not something to scoff at. I live a good life now. [ A momentary pause. ] But just as what-ifs don't change the past, titles don't, either.