Because sometimes Mr. Vash, terrible things happen to good people. Awful, terrible things happen and you think 'if only I'd done this or said that or not let someone go and do something' and you keep on thinking it and thinking it and it makes you sick to your stomach and your heart and it hurts. And then one day, you realise that if you keep feeling that way then it's never going to stop hurting, and that's when you know that you have to let it go. Grief is like that, and so is forgiving somebody.

[Her voice is low and soft as she keeps stroking his hair.]

I don't know, maybe if you were as awful and terrible as people said you were it would be different, but you're not. You're the very opposite of that really, and you know Mr. Vash, because it hurts you so much... that's enough of a reason for someone to forgive you. If you were the sort of person to laugh about it, or never give it a second thought, then you could never be forgiven. That's what I think.