[Tails keeps his eyes glued to his shellphone, scrolling through the document to skim the details, even after the doctor pointed out what a waste of time it would be. He's not wrong. It is, however, a convenient excuse not to look at the doctor through his big monologue.]

[He's still listening, though, as Eggman delivers the kind of sales pitch that would make anyone want to refuse it out of principle. It reeks of sleazy used car salesman. But on the other hand, much like Shadow, he was already planning on taking one home and hacking into it. He'll begrudgingly take the bait.]

All right. But I still want to finish reading through this first. You went through all the trouble of writing it all out, right? [He scrolls through, getting a good sense for its length.] And I'm curious, because this really isn't your style. I would have expected you to just write, "Dr. Eggman can do what he wants", followed by two buttons that both say "ACCEPT".

[It's not like it's actually going to matter. He's going to jailbreak his Radnik immediately, and Eggman knows it. But he's going to do the diligent smart guy thing and read it anyway, undeterred by the head games.]

[As he muses on the whole speech, though, he settles on one short thought.]

You know... if you only ever wanted our attention, there's much easier ways to do that.