True enough. Zexion had been getting too nosy, and you were a convenient way to deflect suspicion.

Not that it did either of us much good, in the end. And if it makes you feel any better, I'm not exactly proud of it these days.

[Axel shrugs slightly, frowning a bit. Yes, he's well aware of how much of a bastard he'd been back then, but he likes to think he's improving, at least a little.]