He takes the chocolate into his mouth, capturing those fingertips with his lips as he does. Then releases them as he chews on the chocolate, eating it before responding.

"It doesn't matter if I have them on my side. They won't protect me if someone else decides I'm not worthy of living. I'm on the outskirts looking in on this little circle of cultivators."

He doesn't have the family ties or the sect bonds that every other cultivator on the train has. His closest people are Meng Yao who people already have a hard time trusting and Xingchen who..perhaps doesn't hate him at least at this moment.