[This sounds like something Anna Sprengel would be advocating. Relationships as transactions, that fits right in with her advice: if you want to accomplish something great, you first need to hide your primary objective. It naturally flows from that that you need to hold your cards close to your chest, view other people with distrust and skepticism, and prevent being taken advantage of, like Vincent says. Anna Sprengel is a huge piece of shit, but he had proven her right, and with an ugly feeling growing in his gut he suspects Vincent is treading that same path.

He doesn't really like any of this, but that advice is now stuck in his head. It isn't going away anytime soon.]

I guess so. [They've both said some stupid stuff in this conversation, but overall he'd agree the scale is (currently) balanced. That doesn't include the bit of truth about his name, but he was the one who volunteered to take on the role of lying twice, so he can't really complain about that one. It doesn't matter that much, anyways.

He rests his chin in his hand, huffing.]

Yeah, no reason why someone couldn't have killed someone else before Hannibal, and both parties are just keeping quiet about it. Aurora would know, but there's no guarantee that's information she'd give out to anyone who asked. I don't think it'd make much difference knowing, anyways.

[If you're going to treat everyone as a potential murderer from the get-go there isn't much point in knowing, is there?]