[Of course the problem at the heart of all of this is impossible to talk about. The thing they need to talk about the most. Alucard knew it would be fraught, but now they're talking politics. That's objectively worse.]

You have how many other allies of that woman to deal with and you're going to focus on the two people who kept this house in power instead? There's nothing gained.

[He wants to issue an ultimatum. That if anything's done to the other two, then it's going to be through him. But that's stupid and risky, and Alucard can't force that on the other two.]

I don't know how many times I will need to underline the fact that I am only here because of them. That I'm theirs as much as you'd curl around something and proclaim mine to the ends of the earth.