Don't play as though I remain ignorant in all this. I know everything.

[He didn't, and Ardyn knew that. But as far as he was concerned...he knew enough.]

I was ever the Draconian's precious sacrifice; you, he, and even Aera all chose to lie to me instead of refusing such a concept.

Tell me. Did you truly hate me so much that you leapt at the chance to be rid of me from even history itself? Or did it take even the slightest token attempt at convincing for you to choose to murder me?