[ Oh, he's gotten worse, all right. Dragon breath, as it happens, isn't at all pleasant or becoming.

Archer doesn't flinch or move away when Gilgamesh steps closer, nor does he present antagonistic airs. Rather, he seems resolute -- unflappable and unmovable. Gilgamesh can hiss and spit and raise his hackles all he wants, but it makes no difference. ]

I have no intention of causing trouble here.

[ Reason and purpose guide his actions, and he will stay so long as those things properly align. As for the rest of it... ]

If I wanted to return, I wouldn't have bothered to leave in the first place.

[ Which is technically true -- with or without Gilgamesh's bombshell, he would have had no desire to go back to his role as a guardian. ]