[He offers a small, bittersweet laugh.]

You wouldn't find many back home who would share that opinion.

[As in, Viktor was generally inconvenient to Jayce's marketability, so it was for the best that he stayed in the shadows. Sometimes he wonders what might have happened if he'd pushed to share the spotlight, but given the rest of Piltover, he knows it wouldn't have amounted to anything good.]

I'm glad that you think so. Working with him has been...one of the greater privileges of my life.