[He wants to argue it. That she's important. And an incredibly capable woman. It's in that pile of nice things he wants to ply her with and she'll have no desire to hear it of him. Wisely, Nier bites his tongue.

Instead, he simply nods along, because of course he agrees. Nier has spent years being so one-track minded on chasing down his daughter that it comes as no surprise that her status is naturally foremost priority.]

Yeah.

[What more can he say to that, after all?

What she follows up with keeps him contemplative. It doesn't take him much to get what she's saying, though. After all, he's met with his younger counterpart. To her, it must be very... disorienting. Hell, to him it's disorienting.]

You're talking about that kid. I don't know him. And he doesn't seem to know me either. Threw me when he said he knew Yonah.