[Kevin blushes terribly at what he instinctively takes as a rebuke. ]

Honestly, I cannot understand how you could forgive me.

[He sips his own tea, looking repentant enough, but also as grateful as one year ago.]

And as for understanding humans, I fear that I only wished to understand half a dozen of them...And only one still lives. The most important of them all, I must add.

[The other chose to be a demon and totally doesn't count.]