Sunny paused, then coughed.
"Oh, but thank you. I appreciate the thought."
He smiled.
There were friends out there who would help you hide a body. As it turned out, there was also a girlfriend out there who would help him cover up the kidnapping of thousands of people.
Wasn't it just too sweet?
Yeah... sweet was the right word to describe it...
Sunny shook his head, trying to focus.
Secondly, what perfect scapegoat are you..."
His eyes widened a little.
"You didn't."
Nephis looked at him silently for a while before responding.
"I did. Why wouldn't I? So many people disappeared without a trace from the middle of the Human Domain, and all our allies are asking themselves who would have been capable of perpetrating such an act. There's not a lot of candidates, and so..." She looked away with a shrug.
"I blamed it all on Mordret."
Sunny stared at her in disbelief.
'That!'
Sensing his gaze, Nephis spoke in a measured tone:
"The King of Nothing is powerful enough to pull off such an attack, and sinister enough to be blamed for it. His reputation is so terrible that I only had to drop a couple of subtle hints for everyone to assume that he was behind everything."
Looking at the lively vista of Bastion, Nephis smiled.
"It's his own fault for being such a wicked wildcard. Plus... he might want to hide in the Hollow Mountains and avoid this conflict entirely, but I never promised not to drag him into the fight against the Dreamspawn. One way or another, he'll have to become involved. It's only fair that he starts doing his part by letting me borrow his name."
Sunny let out a heavy sigh.
Using Mordret as a scapegoat! That was... that was so...
Devious.
Why hadn't he thought of that himself? Suddenly, Sunny felt a pang of vindictive joy.
"I doubt that he'll be happy about it, though"
Nephis looked at him, lingered for a few moments, and then raised an eyebrow in sincere confusion.
Her response was even.
"What should I care if he's unhappy?"
Sunny blinked a few times.
She had a point.
He could not argue with logic.
"There's no good reason, indeed"
They needed to bolster the morale of the Human Domain, and nothing united people better than a common foe. Asterion was that foe, but for obvious reasons, Sunny and Nephis could not use him as a scarecrow — after all, merely mentioning him would add to his power.
So, the least Mordret could do was act as a scarecrow for them, instead.
Internally, Sunny was laughing.
It was a proper villain laugh, no less.
'Ah, how the tables have turned..'