Ah... there's something in that look that really stabs at his heart. There's really no way he could bring himself to try and talk his way out of this, though he's not sure he'd be able to do that much in the first place. He's never been a particularly deceptive person, after all, and Kai has always deserved his honesty.

He drops his focus back down to their hands, his own still holding on so tightly. "... I mean it," he replies, softly, sincerely. He had meant it then, and he's not going to take it back now. "I do, I really... really do."