Pepper's eyebrows rise fractionally when Yunxu suddenly stops speaking, waiting for a moment to see if he'll continue. Apparently getting him talking at length is a good way for little truths to slip through his carefully woven net when he's in this state.

"You know your vision and my vision aren't totally mutually exclusive, right? I mean, my country has the biggest military in the world and a republican government. Sort of. Anyway. The giant standing army isn't necessarily, like, a great thing most of the time because we shouldn't be playing world police, but it's not like Keeliai needs something that big anyway," she muses, tilting her head to the side. "Unless you're secretly a Bond villain, in which case we have a serious problem. You're not totally obsessed with gold, are you? Probably not; then you'd be stuck in two hopeless fights and you're a one-hopeless-fight kind of man. Very noble of you, sticking to your vows," she says without venom, really just amused at this point.