[When Liem explains more to Hayame about his role in Abadar's church, when she asks him if he wants her to tell him that he isn't a good man — he has to think about it. Is that what he's been trying to get her to do? To admit that she was wrong and agree that he isn't a good person after all? His eyebrows draw together as he regards her, frowning up (and up, and up) at her from his seat on the rough wooden bench.]

No. You don't have to.

[Liem looks back down at their joined hands, tightly laced like they're bosom friends making a lifelong promise, and feels himself lose what panic-spurred determination he'd had. In truth, he doesn't wish for one of the few real companions he has to denounce him. It would be a sad thing for him to lose this, on top of everything else.]

I simply… didn't want your opinion of me to be rooted in ignorance.

[If she knows what kind of role he's fighting to return to back home, and she still wants to believe that he is a good person… even if he can't agree, he doesn't have the heart to object.]

You are not a bad person, Hayame.