"Kuja's the one who sealed himself in the lab, I couldn't have done that," Zidane says. Which, given his poor grasp of magic is true. "He was afraid of dying, and we couldn't find any answers in those books. I couldn't even read them." He shrugs slightly. "I don't even really see where there's that much of a difference... dead, or sealed away forever. But I guess it made a difference to him, somehow."

"Well, usually one's permanent, and the other might not be," Regulus says in a tone that sounds slightly bored and slightly disbelieving.

"And there are probably less than a handful of people on Gaia that wouldn't tear the Desert Palace apart to make sure it was permanent," Zidane counters. "Kuja started a huge war and tried to destroy the whole world. People don't just forget things like that." And he darts a glance at Mikoto at that.

She just scowls a bit at the reminder of the world her brother did destroy. "Let's just say I know there were extenuating circumstances," she says coldly. Really, she now blamed Garland for that more than Kuja... He would have known as well as she did not to push the unstable silver-haired Genome to the point of what had appeared to be a complete psychotic break.

"We know they won't forget," Vivi says quietly, looking down at his feet.

Regulus goes over to give Vivi a pat, and glances to Zidane, "I do hope that guard mentioned the problem we encountered on the way here?"

Zidane nods. "Garnet's taking care of that... I'm not really good at political stuff."