You saw the potential in all of that, and yet you didn't step back, evaluate circumstances, and identify all of those desires as a form of mourning. [In that statement, said with too much weight and regret in them, is the real reason Alucard asked after friendship. The simple potential that someone else beyond himself understood his father's emotions and could have said something to pull him back from the brink. Words from a mouth that didn't share genetics, that might have more weight than a son's.

It's a disappointment, to say the very least. And it's at that point Alucard finally pulls himself up from rubbing at Cesar's belly. The worst moments are past, after all.]

I refuse to comment on your understand of human nature, but as for the matter of my father, you met him at his best. It's almost understandable.

[There's a long sigh that follows.]

You didn't care for justice for what passed, that much is already clear to me. That devotion [it's far more than Alucard had] was the only reason you agreed to such an insane proposal?