[He lets those words hang in the air, so sharp and precarious that they might as well be the blade of a guillotine.]
That being said, I won't stab you in the back unless you give me a reason to. Alliances are useful to me; they're tools to be used here for the sake of survival. You have enough sense, I hope, to realize this as well.
[Kaiba's smart. Prone to something close to anger, he thinks, but smart. Surely he wouldn't discard an alliance without good reason, and as long as they remain useful to reach other, betrayal might not be something they'd have to worry about for the time being.
A precarious sort of... trust. Even though the amount of it is laughable at best, between the two of them. But an understanding isn't out of the realm of possibility.]
FOREVER LATER
[He lets those words hang in the air, so sharp and precarious that they might as well be the blade of a guillotine.]
That being said, I won't stab you in the back unless you give me a reason to. Alliances are useful to me; they're tools to be used here for the sake of survival. You have enough sense, I hope, to realize this as well.
[Kaiba's smart. Prone to something close to anger, he thinks, but smart. Surely he wouldn't discard an alliance without good reason, and as long as they remain useful to reach other, betrayal might not be something they'd have to worry about for the time being.
A precarious sort of... trust. Even though the amount of it is laughable at best, between the two of them. But an understanding isn't out of the realm of possibility.]