Why would he say this? What does he have to gain by emphasizing something so far away from reality? Wouldn’t he be found out by something so blatant? How could this be a reasonable thing to say? Is there a perspective from which he is being transparent?
I really was trying to make sense of what perspective would produce these words, but eventually it struck me: he’s saying it because it would be good for him if you believed it, and he thinks he can get away with saying it without you catching him out.
I think there are multiple things going on here. One of the things Evrart is advising the character to transparent about is that Evrart works to get the characters gun back. That means that he wants the character to tell Joyce something that suggests that the the character has a debt towards Evrart.
Evrart suggest that he is not going to violate the privacy of the character, which concretely might mean telling other people about the gun. If the character however decides not to tell Joyce about the gun after being explicitly told that he can do so, the character joins into being complicit with hiding information.
I think there are multiple things going on here. One of the things Evrart is advising the character to transparent about is that Evrart works to get the characters gun back. That means that he wants the character to tell Joyce something that suggests that the the character has a debt towards Evrart.
Evrart suggest that he is not going to violate the privacy of the character, which concretely might mean telling other people about the gun. If the character however decides not to tell Joyce about the gun after being explicitly told that he can do so, the character joins into being complicit with hiding information.