Archie... [he actually gets momentarily distracted by the nickname, it's so much whiplash to go from dealing with Archer to dealing with Archie] Uh, yeah, I guess his magic is something both you and Mitsuru would want to study. I think he's going to be chasing him for a while.

[Time, though -- time and underdogs and his concern deepens a little with that particular memory, because he has an inkling of what she's going for, and he's still unsure about it. It's partly his own hang-ups lately, with the effects of the coral and hallucinations running rampant, and partly because of the way she talks about it, like placing a gauntlet down.

They're all getting ready for battle, even though negotiating might be the battlefield they're about to step onto.

She does catch him off guard with that last bit.]

--Something other than magic?

[I'm sorry, he's totally at sea on this because he's an idiot.]