Yeesh, okay, okay, I get it. He's perfect, he's a genius, sun shines out the dude's butt. Does he actually, like... like things, though?

...does he like you?

[ He's not trying to be an ass with that last question, and his tone is gentle. Maybe he's reading too much into this. But Saphir had only said he needed him, and that strikes Giovanni as a pretty significant gulf of meaning. ]