The best thing to say here would be something to the effect of, 'technically he's done nothing wrong,' or maybe even expressing a hope that he's changed, but neither of those are what come out of Vincent's mouth.

"'Cause we don't wanna make it look like he had a point."

The only thing they had going for them back then was that very few people actually took that guy seriously. Still, some of his friends backed him up, and people talk. Even if they didn't think he and his brother were brab'ja, they knew they didn't get along with Bedger. It'd be very easy to suspect them if anything bad happened.

"Though now, I dunno. Bet he's some bigwig now. S'why I gotta ask my brother."