This isn't the first time that someone has tried to praise him, to convince him of his better qualities. A part of Dimitri still wants to protest, to explain that they just don't understand the rotten rest of him. Yet... He thinks he has to fight against that inclination. At the very least, he cannot let it rule him.

And... Maybe there is something nice, to hear from someone so incredible like Zuke, that he has still managed to do good things for him.

"There was no reason to act in any other way to you," Dimitri says quietly, focusing on the feel of soft fur. "Besides, I would say that describes how I feel about you much more."