Black sludge? Yeah, no thanks. Anyone going around enslaving people deserves to be taken out.

[Although when he describes their forces as just 'rebels'...] Kinda sounds like you've got a rag-tag group going if you need the help of a random guy like me. Can't I just go home? I have a war to deal with there too, you know.

[And he's needed a lot more in Fódlan than he is here, as far as he knows.]