"I don't joke." Which Dedue ought to know by now. "The truce was well-struck. It would only have made things more difficult to continue hostilities in a place like this. Particularly since not everyone remembers the war the same way, or from the same point in time. Dimitri came from a later point than I did, and he tells me that he was already intending to attempt a parley with Edelgard even at home. It's a bold move, but worth it if it ends the war without more bloodshed."

Then he sneers. "But sleeping with her? After dragging us into slaughter after pointless slaughter, getting our troops killed for nothing in the name of his atrocities? Ludicrous."

Not that Felix has a ton of room to talk, given...what happened on the cruise. And in the wrestling pit. But he didn't spend five years ranting about taking her head off in as grisly a fashion as possible.