“I could have been doing so much better than wasting my time with you.”
"I doubt that it was truly a waste of your time. Look at all the lives you've saved. Look at the trinket our Professor himself bestowed onto you. You get to be the one who took down Team Flare and became a hero.
Your friends and family are breathing because of you.
But that's not what this is about, is it?"
Lysandre regards her with a kind of cruel amusement in his voice. Why hide it now?
"For what it's worth, I don't consider our time together a waste. I truly had confidence in you - I was anticipating great things from the professor's new students, and I can say I was right. You have done great things.
Those things may have been counter to my ambition, but I can recognize greatness. Every word I've said about you is something I've meant, even if it infuriated me to say so."
And it did infuriate him, to think of his plans coming apart at the seams, picked apart by this young champion - someone that Team Flare - that he was supposed to have the power to crush into the dirt like everything in Geosenge.
"Now we have all the time in the world to waste, ma petite. Take it in stride. One day it might be all we have left, you and I- time to waste. You may waste it now, if you'd like - go and listen to everyone's praise, and enjoy whatever festivities are next for you, Champion of Kalos. How brightly this city sparkles for you."
His Mega Ring, though broken, still holds a glimmer. Almost a glow.