[The smirk fades and Jade turns his head somewhat, eyes lost behind the sheen of his glasses. It's a while before he speaks, truly thinking on his words to the boy as a child who didn't know everything and should learn things in time, as we all as... A friend.]

Admitting you are wrong is the hardest part. Telling yourself who you are isn't who you should be is nigh impossible. Your reality is based on what you know, and telling yourself to change your own reality in the first place is a feat within itself.

You are a person who wants to change, desperately. And I...

[The only time Jade can think of himself faltering, failing to immediately spit out the word...]

Respect that.