[Ilda is the single best listener to his stories X has ever had, and this includes his own children.]

Well. At the time, it was everything.

[This still isn't easy to talk about, and it takes X a moment to go on -- partly because the memory hurts, and partly because Ilda's nickname, well-intentioned though it is, sends a tremor down his spine and makes him flinch.]

There was a... a villain, for lack of a better word, who killed X's family. Unlucky tried to stop it, but in the end, X was the only person he could save. And X didn't trust him at first, because he'd been pretending to work for the same people responsible for what happened to his family.