['Lalalala not listening' has never been more appropriate. He's already been lectured, yelled at, and nearly lost friends over the idea of his particular brand of extreme preemptive measures, he doesn't really want to get into it again.

So instead he'll just skip right ahead to that second part.]

I'm a hero! You're trying to take over the kingdom, so I have to help Princess Zelda stop you, but then you followed me- [WHOOP, HE ALMOST LET SLIP THAT YOU PULLED A FAST ONE ON HIM. That won't do at all. Mayday mayday, evasive maneuvers figure out something else to say.] -aaaaand then. I beat you! Cause the good guys always win.

[Nice recovery.]