How much is bragging and how much is accurate? It's true no one but Gladio will know, but Ignis can make a few guesses. After all, Iris is still an Amicitia even if she isn't the one that carries the title of Shield. If someone underestimates her because of that, they deserve every bit of what comes to them.

Ignis sits back a little, though not enough to displace Gladio's arm, and folds his hands under his chin, mischief suddenly twinkling in his blind right eye, "Elle, is it? I'm afraid that's another name I don't recognize. A hunter friend?"

One, that perhaps, focuses on hunting the rare Shield Behemoth?