[It's like their conversation on the network all over again, but magnified tenfold. He'd expected something short and simple-- not a lie, exactly, but certainly nothing so personal. It's an intimate story, and one Polnareff is a little shocked to hear-- but he's honored, too. They're not close, precisely, but the very fact he's told Polnareff this at all means he thinks highly enough of him to trust him with it.]

It was a noble thing to do.

[He says it softly, but his voice is no less serious for it.]

Both the killing and what you did afterwards. There's a lot of people who wouldn't have done either.