... That's easy, if you want a purely greedy answer.

If I accept that you are irrevocably evil, or useless, or anything...

What the hell does that say about me?

But that's not the whole answer. Not at all. The deeper truth is, I see more in you than perhaps you yourself do right now. And the first step to getting you to see that, is perhaps being overly aggressive with my gratitude. Telling you, no matter how hard you claim otherwise, that you deserve kindness that... Well, that it feels like you haven't received much of for way too long.

[Just like her, Pidonus doesn't say aloud.]