Edgard usually isn't this serious. He only was once before, and Benedict remembers it well, but it was long enough ago that he can shrug it off as being from from a different time, a different him. Surely Edgard doesn't monitor him that closely.
He can't quite bring himself to fully deny it, thus lying again, but he doesn't want to acknowledge that that's what the statement was. So Bene shrugs, hoping as hard as he can that it's enough, and Edgard will leave him alone.
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He can't quite bring himself to fully deny it, thus lying again, but he doesn't want to acknowledge that that's what the statement was. So Bene shrugs, hoping as hard as he can that it's enough, and Edgard will leave him alone.