Skullius had been more baffled than he let on.
Fulgardt was wrong. The Hybrid Warmoth had fully expected him to be prepared to kill him because he knew too much. Skullius wouldn't underestimate Fulgardt that much. This was why he had been wary of using his War Body for Kintar earlier.
But as it turned out, sharp as Skullius was when considering everything that could go wrong, he had still underestimated Fulgardt.
Only now, when the Immoral mocked him for being unable to understand how he (Fulgardt) processed things, did Skullius truly understand the essence behind why his evil self from before, the possessed Festos, had been so unwilling to go back to Somanda to retrieve his soul.
In Maqi, when Skullius and this past version of Fulgardt had met, the latter had been so stumped by how Skullius figured out his secrets that he seemed to give up on countering entirely and admit defeat; Fulgardt had even retreated with Rias.
But that was a truth isolated to only that time.
