[ That sounds real believable... He'll smile, but only weakly and just barely. ]

I wouldn't be living in squalor, Yurio. Between Viktor and myself, I was the one who managed to have a normal job here.

[ Not to take a jab at his own fiance but also to take a slight jab to his fiance who earned his money purely on the task board alone. Which isn't a bad thing given everything. There was probably a fair number of people who lived that way. ]

Plus there's the rink now.