... are you selling your company to me, or your father's?

[ of all of the things. he knows that matthias gautier's face is just Frozen Like That, but dimitri has the sneaking suspicion that despite rodrigue's words, and despite the fact that the man has declared for him as the heir, he thinks he still doesn't think of him as the successor to lambert's throne.

then again, if there's a man who's always going to have problems with succession, it's someone who's had to hold onto gautier's position all these years. ]

I'll make my visit to Gautier. Not to worry. [ a grumbling, ] I'll have to, anyway.