The Mystic? While it sounds like his brother's brand of arrogance to title himself thus, Ardyn hasn't heard that moniker before. It seems whoever he's given that name to though he's also not given a great opinion of Ardyn, which- Small surprise there too. It hurts. It always did, always will even if he expects it more than he doesn't.

"I am helping," he counters, convicted. "Just because he doesn't agree with my method of doing so doesn't mean it isn't true."

They're having two entirely different conversations, unfortunately, but Ardyn's still stuck in the past with only snippets of his future and as they relate to Town.