"I totally can hold my alcohol." Fuck no he couldn't, he was always trying to compete with everything Greed threw down.
"Good, because I have no intention on filtering anything." He didn't ask her about the big white elephant in the room: Shakespeare. He figured she'd talk about it if she wanted to. He also wasn't really great at digging thoughts out of people. Looking for things, research, internet hacks, that kind of thing, sure, but not people.