"All you have to do is ask and I'll stop," Soldat says with a little blink, not relaxing inside at that smirk. "But I don't mind sharing. Pretty much everyone knows, anyway. I used to be owned by a secret government organization who wants to rule the world. I was their assassin. They took my memories and reprogrammed me." They hitch the flesh shoulder in half a shrug, looking up from the ground, but only out across the lake instead of at Ardyn. "The memories are coming back. Slow."