[Now that he's not in the middle of fighting and everything is done, he really has no reason to dodge it anymore. So he leans back in his hospital bed, feeling calm and relaxed—something that reflects in his voice.]

Simple reason, really. Velvet is someone I know from my world, and not only do I owe her, I had made a promise to help her through her journey. So I just followed my family's code of honor and duty to uphold it.

[A small pause.]

In this case, that's all it really was. I can't say I really agreed to her plan, but I also understood why she was doing it and what she hoped to achieve. And since this isn't really all too different from what we did in our own world... [A small mental shrug.]