[Three months ago, Kaworu would have found Mettaton's rebuff a neutral event. Possibly a little amusing, but ultimately irrelevant.

He still does, really.

But there are a lot of other things right now that he can't leave alone; issues Mettaton has already kicked over the rock to uncover.]

I didn't agree to anything.

[He, uh. May also be unfamiliar with that phrase.]

I didn't agree to THIS, either. I haven't agreed to anything at all--if that means my only purpose here is to be taken advantage of and then rejected for it, then I will at least have the right to speak for myself.

[....even if that, too, is to be limited. ]