[He just gives his own chuckle and rolls his eyes at her affirmation about her height. She's still small to him.]

Yeah, I did. I figured out something like that, kid. Even before I came here... I kinda figured it out then, too. But then a bunch of other things happened to make me think I was wrong. That maybe I deserved being the bad guy. There was a little girl, and I was her hero. I thought I'd let her down, that I'd lost her. That I couldn't be a hero.

Then, a few days after I came here? There she was, as annoying as ever. And I found I didn't fail. I won't. I really helped her. And if I could do that for that girl... Hey, how bad can I be?

[He loses himself in a warm smile as he reflects, with his eyes starting to shine.]