Don't you think it'd be more beneficial for someone you're stuck with in the long run to at least tolerate you? I could break you, sure, but I don't necessarily find that particularly fun. If that were the case, anyone would do, and I wouldn't have made a contract with you in the first place.

[ And he is fond of humans. Maybe not in an entirely wholesome way, but he likes them for what they are.

And this one had gone to extraordinary lengths to survive. Even if he'd stumbled and made bad choices along the way. If he had wanted to choose his own way to die, there had been plenty of other options, but he'd chosen one that had given him some hope.

He can respect that. ]