[ Viktor also has a dry sense of humor but Jayce has known him for years, so he's not entirely certain he can guess with Alucard. He thinks it's funny though, so he's going to lean toward joking. ]

I'd probably just start writing questions down.

[ His sense of humor is much more obvious, like everything about him. Jayce sombers though about the topic of his stupidity and he shrugs. ]

All I've ever really wanted to do was make our city better, it's why we started Hextech too, so when given the opportunity to try and change things on a higher level, I thought I should do it.

[ It's a wistful thought, remembering the genuine need to help people, the good intentions that drove him to where he was. But a junior politician should never have ended up the head of the council, and he walked into a war situation with no real knowledge. It was probably always going to not work out. ]

But I didn't know enough about how things work, about how to actually enact change or deal with a corrupt system. It was a naive and kind of arrogant idea that I could come in blind and fix everything that had been wrong for a century.

[ Again, Jayce is very upfront, opening a window into his past and his heart to strangers, because this is all weighing on his mind, and he wonders if there aren't lessons in there for more than him. Not that Alucard needs a lesson in anything, but Jayce never really got much of a chance to talk through it either. It all just sort of happened and spiraled out of control. He talks off the top of his head, it's a thing. ]

Sorry to ramble. Anyway, I'd like to avoid that again. But you're not at all wrong. By changing things about this city, whether it's restoration or creating new technology, it could be interfering. Maybe it's worth it if it's a net good?