[ there's no tactful way to say "i was unhinged and trying to sabotage the game and he helped change me" so he decides to say something else ]

He's smart. Not only is he smart, he's embarrassingly lazy, so he solves problems efficiently. He figured out how things worked.

[ in spite of his vagueness and his backhanded compliment, Hikage can't help but look a little soft at the recollections. ]

At the time, I didn't understand things there... Or, rather, I didn't care to understand them. But Belph did, and he used that knowledge to protect me when he could have been protecting himself. He's that kind of man.