[It stings in a way he had not quite anticipated, the bluntness of Hanzo's response, and though Zenyatta chides himself for it- for reading slights into honesty, for assuming that Hanzo would handle him any more gently than he would any other man, for wanting to be handled gently in the first place- it colours his voice as he answers, a touch defiant. There is just something in the way he phrases it, mutually benefited-]
I am, and perhaps I will- though I would not like to undercut your enterprise. And regardless of how I feel about you in this precise moment, I would not turn you away.
[evenly:] You will not be claiming any of the profits reaped by your staff, of course?
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I am, and perhaps I will- though I would not like to undercut your enterprise. And regardless of how I feel about you in this precise moment, I would not turn you away.
[evenly:] You will not be claiming any of the profits reaped by your staff, of course?