"So, how did you two end up together?"
Jiang Yu asked as he looked at Argenti and Boothill.
It wasn't that Jiang Yu thought Argenti and Boothill couldn't work together. Rather, ever since being lectured, Boothill had mostly avoided Argenti-after all, he was always blurting out "baby," which would earn him a greeting from the Knight of Beauty.
For that reason, seeing the two of them working together was fairly unusual.
"To put it bluntly, I've got an important mission on my hands," Boothill replied. "Lives are at stake. It's damn important!"
Argenti said unhurriedly, "When I first followed you into Mr. Aventurine's room and met our brother Boothill, I merely thought him a crude-speaking brute unworthy of Beauty's blessing...
"But after spending time with him and speaking with him, I discovered that this cold mechanical shell housed a burning heart of chivalry.
"He deserves Beauty's favor. Just like Tir Anders, the light of Beauty flourishes beneath his cold mechanical body."
By comparing him directly to Tir Anders, Argenti clearly held Boothill in very high regard.
After all, that description wasn't simply praise when it came to Tir Anders. It was also an objective statement-a fragment of Beauty really was stored beneath that Intellitron knight's chest.
"Son of a nice lady, can't you just-" Boothill looked at Argenti. His own strange way of speaking was only due to his modified Synesthesia Beacon, but this knight genuinely talked strangely.
Boothill wanted Argenti to shut up, but faced with the supposedly "inarticulate" Argenti, he clearly struggled to find an opening whenever the man started speaking.
Argenti stubbornly finished what he had to say, cutting the cowboy off:
"Therefore, I have decided to accompany him for the time being and lend my strength to his noble, unfinished cause."
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