Rei just... crossed his arms. The pointy-eared girl made the mistake of going off on some rant against the Emperor and, predictably, his bodyguards all responded in kind, training their guns on all the visitors. Oh and, they outnumbered the guests by quite a margin, so in a straight fight they would win by sheer force of numbers. This was all becoming rather annoying, people puffing out their chests and going at each other half-cocked, they may as well have been asking for a disaster to happen.

The one of them, the wizard, said something that really caught Rei's attention. According to him, everyone who had been killed by the Heartless would come back if Leo were successfully stopped. Normally, Rei would be questioning how such a thing was even logistically possible even with the involvement of magic, but it made him realize something. His predecessors, the previous wielders of his Keyblade, had all perished fighting the Heartless. Would they all be brought back if Leo was defeated? More importantly, would they all still retain their ability to wield the Keyblade? If so, the City of Shadows could stand to gain quite an advantage against the Heartless menace. After all, a dozen Hunters would obviously be a superior fighting force than a lone Hunter.

"Right," he finally said, having grown tired of the arguing and decided to take it upon himself to make it stop, "if we're all done acting like a bunch of children, might I suggest we actually do something productive instead wasting our time with squabbling?" he stepped forward, approaching Tocsax specifically. Something about the kid's story was suspicious and, true to his blunt nature, Rei intended to get answers, "So tell me, how exactly does one go about surviving all the crap you went through, Ascot?" he asked, calling the kid Ascot. Rei wasn't an idiot, and wasn't about to let anyone treat him like one. By simply removing the X and rearranging the letters, Tocsax's name would spell out Ascot, the name of the person from the story. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the rest.