[Maul listens as Usagi explains just what she can see in him that no one else can. Something small inside of him leaps at the words, agrees with them very strongly, but he pushes it back down with long practice.

While he doesn't believe he is entirely evil, not the way his master is, he thinks that part of him that is good is so withered and broken that it will never grow again. All he's good for is causing death, to create chaos wherever he goes, and never to help anyone.

But he knows Usagi doesn't think that. If she did, she would have killed him over and over again by now, reducing him to a squid each time he reformed on the beach before he could do so much as take a few steps.

Yet she hadn't done that.

She sees the good in him, and if he can't have faith in himself, at least he can believe in what Usagi believes in him.

He's heard all that he needs to for the moment. Before he turns to leave, he speaks to his friend.]

I love you too. And.....I'll try to see for myself what you can see inside of me. To be worthy of your belief in me.