"Can you promise me something?" he asks you as he turns to you. "Can you promise me that... even if our feelings for each other have changed, you'll let me protect you anyway?" His voice gets softer when he asks you that last question, hopeful that you'll say yes, that you'll let defend you anyway no matter what you think of him or what he thinks of you. He'd gladly lay down his life for you, because in the 150 years he's been alive, you're the only one he's ever loved. But you don't know that.