...I told you, remember? We made our choices, that's all it is or was. [ He doesn't really know what else to say to that and he's the wrong person to be talking to about this when his entire life has been a result of trying to fix one wrong until very recently.

With a sigh, his hand drops down to his side and he fidgets with the watch on his wrist. ]

You can accept them maybe, yeah. But you don't like them and Subete does. [ A little shaky, but without Subete here he doesn't need to worry too much about the emotion behind his words bleeding through. ] Whether you're a villain or not...Giovanni called himself one too, and he couldn't even bring himself to keep me in line when he was the vessel.

[ After a beat he shakes his head and glances over at Saphir.

Ah...he's not good at this even when he wants to be and right now he's running on impulse and feeling he like wants to bolt but staying put because he feels like he owes that at least. ]

I don't know. You should ask someone else...I was alone for over a hundred years, but that's because I was a coward and countless other reasons.