"Congratulations." There's a tiny wry twist to Regis's mouth. Unless he misses his guess - and he doesn't think - it was/will be him who promoted Cor, so. It's complicated. But he means it, too.

He follows inside, the sadness in his heart heavy as a stone even as he keeps his voice light.

"Noctis was the one who snapped me out of a... very vivid memory and got me inside a ship into the Dream Width. And then I met a bespectacled man with a dull sandy hair who claimed to work for Noctis." And failed to introduce himself, but what can you do. "Who else?"