[ while sabo doesn't need to be able to read people's intentions as well as some people (looks at wolfwood from another timeline), he does put effort in feeling out how to best work with the people he's around. (i, naru, suffer due to sabo constantly.)

he'll also take the chuckle as a huge win for him, thank you. he has seen enough of blade's laughs and this one isn't a deranged one. ]

When you put it that way, he seems like a very pathetic person, doesn't he? A person who is unable to face reality and finds comfort in their own lies. [ ... ] If we include this along with everything that he has said about that goddess of his—he is someone almost worth pitying.

[ in this moment blade can see where sabo stands on religion as a treat ig. ]