Devero's returning smile is soft and warm-- and then a little sheepish. Yeah, he remembers the last time Taiki saw him with herb.

"Uh, yeah," he says. "This isn't-- this is just--" Dev. Articulate. "I'm just taking a break. Trying to relax a little. This isn't like... last time."

You know, ehen he'd been chain-smoking herb cigarettes in an attempt to avoid confronting the trauma of having his mind controlled for the first time on Erda.