That... echoes so much what Trunks had told him once, about being able to do normal, dating, relationship things with Cassie, that he almost wants to blurt out the similarity right there. He doesn't, holding Trunks' counsel, but still.

"I'm glad you could talk to your mom about it," is what he says instead. "Get some good perspective."

Then he chuckles. "Feel the same way about Koumyou. Never-- really thought I'd be the kind of guy who'd have any kind of family until I boarded this crazy train. Now I have a brother and a partner." And Rich, though Devero's much more afraid of that one-- him? A dad? Not possible, not given who he is and how the role of parent is almost sacred where he comes from.