I would say that's why my strategy worked better right there, Satsuki. I wasn't trying to manipulate anyone, I was just being honest. I don't learn about others because I want to use them, I learn about them because I understand that I'm not perfect, nor am I always right. Being intelligent and talented doesn't make me either of those things.

[ A beat, then Weiss adds. ] You probably would've won if you hadn't gone after Sun and that weird reporter didn't start making up lies about me, by the way. Whoever that reporter was, you should probably find them and ask them why they were trying to conspire against you. There were plenty of negative things that could've been said about me and not a single one of them actually came up, just ones that made you look dishonest.