That's not what I'm trying to do at all.

[Which - in a rare feat for Gilbert - isn't meant as misdirection. Persuasion isn't what he's about. If Kanji can't see what's already so obvious, it's just proof that he's not to be trusted. Already domesticated, as it were.]

I only wondered whether anyone else felt the same. You don't, and you can keep playing pet for the humans forever, for all I care.