[hearing her say that definitively is a sort of strange relief. there's a tension that drains from his shoulders. it's almost like a balloon being deflated.]

Well, I guess—

[it's time for him to own up to his role as earnestly as she did.]

I'm... Noctis Lucis Caelum, and I'm... also a Bounty. [much as he hates to admit it, both in that he has to be one at all, and in... actually saying it out loud.]

Not our dear leader either, though. Just a guy who definitely didn't sign up for this job.