[He flushes!!! It's nice to have Absinthe be genuinely charming again. Too bad this wouldn't really work in real life because there Levity's subconscious still freaks out at the sight of him.]

...To be honest... I was certain. But others kept telling me it would be naive or stupid, to trust so blindly.

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And I think you would have been unhappy with that, too.