I used you as an example. [ Royce says, irritation seeping into his tone. ] There wouldn't be any benefit to actually hurting you. I told him that already. I don't kill people for no reason.

[ And yes, he was doing it to rile Sora up, but part of that was with the aim of helping. Royce doesn't much care, but he does know that reacting that strongly makes you a target. Sora doesn't seem to realize that, and Royce is trying to make him see it. But it doesn't matter now, because he has the babysitters here to protect him and reassure him that Royce is just paranoid and evil. Royce folds his arms over his chest.

It's no different here than it is anywhere else. He watches Sora closely, from under his hood, and directly to Sora: ] Evil is only what we call those who oppose us. That was my point, which completely sailed over your head.