I just want a bit part in your life

Let's never go through that again. For one thing, I would rather not put all of you who rescued me to the trouble of fetching me. (Except for Greed. I don't care about Greed.) For another, I really don't think I like being paraded before a group of magi.

Which reminds me, if any magi are reading this?

Kindly fuck off. You won't touch any of my beloved, understood?

((Comments on the RL are still continuing, don't worry. Replies to this when I wake up.))

Does it make any logical sense that someone who is good at poker - and I have word that I am - would be absolutely terrible at strip poker? It's just poker with different stakes...

Ah, I hope you had a good night's sleep, Mikk Marquise? Let me know if you require my hospitality again.

Allen was successfully defeated. Three labors left - Prince Larsa's two swords, Rufus ShinRa's panther, and the Corinthian's cat.

...I don't know if I'm skilled enough to take on any of those locations. But I can't wait. If I can just finish those last three, it'll all be over. Everyone could get their things back, I could rest...

I'll have to be able to do it at my current level of skill, then. It would take a long time to go looking around for a teacher, and there are still people out there who want my head. It's best to finish quickly.

((Translation: Issei's really, really worried about screwing up now.))