[ He doesn't blame her for being overwhelmed. Hell, she and Fujimaru are alike in that regard, but Fujimaru has the benefit of this being far from their first rodeo. No one else in the world has as much experience with world-ending threads than them... an ordinary person who just so happened to have Rayshift and Master compatibility, and has been fighting for humanity for a long time. ]

Heh, no such luck... I was just letting everything I kept tucked away out for once.

[ The best monologues are the ones improvised off the top of one's head, right? ]

Both are correct. I'm the Vile King, Vortigern... but Vortigern is, by itself, just a concept. The forms he takes vary... hell, before I was "Oberon", I was the "Mors King", and after I was defeated, I returned as a Heroic Spirit using "Oberon" as the basis for my existence. In Proper Human History, Vortigern was the White Dragon to King Arthur's existence as the Red Dragon.

[ ...it occurs to him that a lot of that might just be flying over Ai's head, but what can he say? Habits are hard to break, and his talkative tendencies seem to be one of them. ]

...Put simply, it'd be weird if you started calling me something else after all this time. Besides, "Oberon" rolls off the tongue better than "Vortigern", doesn't it?