"Owe them? Absolutely fucking nothing--hell, after the whole legal proceedings settled down I'm basically worth the empire's military budget several dozen times over."

Ardyn laughed, somewhere between bitter and actually amused.

"No, you see, once the whole show was exposed as not actually being scripted, the executive producer and indeed the entire network were in all kinds of trouble. It turns out it is very illegal to kidnap people from across universes and force them to kill one another because you're a godsdamned lunatic whose entire race doesn't comprehend the idea of creativity."