[ Cross is used to having the cards in this relationship between Master and Apprentice, the one with the knowledge and information being held back. The tables being turned on him are a reality he did not expect to happen anytime soon, especially with the information Allen is spewing at him.

The last thing the General remembers is walking out of the room Allen and he were in for the reveal about the Fourteenth. He never made it to his room, instead being pulled into Exsilium. When was it, then — seconds, minutes, hours after their talk that this all went down? That he was killed — or so Allen says — with his own anti-Akuma weapon?

His hand goes to the thigh holster housing that gun, but he does not put a finger on it. It's not as if he can do much to change the timeline, make Judgement change its mind about killing him — that is what he is going back to once the Initiative decides it is done with his services.

This is some next-level shit to him, and he can't hold back the dark laugh that comes from him once he is done processing Allen's words, sarcasm dripping in his voice as he speaks. (And don't think Cross didn't notice how Allen's voice caught in his throat.) ]

Well, that is quite a way for us to have our first meeting since your trip back home. What else am I going to miss after I die once I go home?