[So maybe he hadn't been expecting the question, but he does listen and listens with attentiveness. Ciel isn't surprised that Jack would follow Oswald wherever he went. In a way, Jack is no different than Alois in that aspect.
Ciel doesn't know much about Oswald, that much he'll admit - nothing more than mentions on paper and the short time he'd spent interacting with the man, Glen Baskerville. Jack had been equally attentive then, so that was no surprise he was equally as clingy now as he was then.
As for the change Jack had gone through? That much Ciel could attest to, especially after having read private things he probably shouldn't have. The man had put on an openly friendly front, but he had, over time, come to actually care for Alois and Ciel. Even if he hadn't written his feelings down his actions had made it apparent enough.]
I do not know what your relationship was like with Jack Vessalius, but whenever he has mentioned you it has always been with fondness. [Ciel was no idiot - it was painfully obvious Oswald was an important individual in Jack's life.] Although he may be a fool...he has cared for Alois and I more than others cared to in the past. If it wasn't for his help I fear where we would have ended up in this city.
[There was a little shake of his head then, finally addressing the question head on.]
I do not think it was the wrong choice. As you said, Jack is a desperate man. Desperate people do drastic things and if he was desperate when he found you then he would be even more so if you were to leave.
[And the last thing Ciel wants to deal with, on top of everything else, is a desperate Jack.]
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Ciel doesn't know much about Oswald, that much he'll admit - nothing more than mentions on paper and the short time he'd spent interacting with the man, Glen Baskerville. Jack had been equally attentive then, so that was no surprise he was equally as clingy now as he was then.
As for the change Jack had gone through? That much Ciel could attest to, especially after having read private things he probably shouldn't have. The man had put on an openly friendly front, but he had, over time, come to actually care for Alois and Ciel. Even if he hadn't written his feelings down his actions had made it apparent enough.]
I do not know what your relationship was like with Jack Vessalius, but whenever he has mentioned you it has always been with fondness. [Ciel was no idiot - it was painfully obvious Oswald was an important individual in Jack's life.] Although he may be a fool...he has cared for Alois and I more than others cared to in the past. If it wasn't for his help I fear where we would have ended up in this city.
[There was a little shake of his head then, finally addressing the question head on.]
I do not think it was the wrong choice. As you said, Jack is a desperate man. Desperate people do drastic things and if he was desperate when he found you then he would be even more so if you were to leave.
[And the last thing Ciel wants to deal with, on top of everything else, is a desperate Jack.]