No, it hadn't sounded like that. Nida was just being stubborn. Because he did not want to talk about it. And yet... And yet there was still a small portion of him that obeyed Squall Leonhart. It was that part that spoke, but the rest of him that sighed.

"Two and a half-years for me. They haven't been easy. You've done your best."

But something in that tone says that his best wasn't exactly good enough in Nida's case.