Something about that had Noctis's interest, and Kuja took note of it immediately. Like so much else, it took no real attention of his own, and so he left it be without too much address. Theirs was simple conversation, not much more.

He most certainly was not giving in to the bait that was that smirk. Oh no.

"I care about its representation as a symbol of this part of the world. Everything around it is meticulously well kept, from the lawn where students roam to the state of the classrooms themselves, and yet something this grand is left to sit in disrepair, useless. An odd metaphor for the status of this academy, is it not?"