[He gives Giorno an uncertain Look at the prospect of someone actually being meaner than him, but the rest of the boy's words catch far more of his attention.]

Because... of what you went through? Or of being alone here?

Don't have to answer if you don't want to, by the way. [No pressure. Giorno, though less averse to softness, is too much like him, sometimes: unaccustomed, or at least not much given to, vulnerability. The agency, and the power to share, still lies with him.]