I was. As well as letting you know that I am not someone with the right or the inclination to judge you harshly.

[Can Kurama coax the lip out from between his teeth with a gentle thumb? That's not actually good for it.]

Goro... No one sheds a lifetime of pain in two weeks. Everyone can change, but no one can reverse their entire course in an instant. Change is a process. It may start in a single moment but it will rarely if ever be completed in it.

[He sighs quietly, lowering his eyes.] Many will tell you it is an irrelevant distinction, but murder and assassination truly are two different things. There is no such thing as a spontaneous assassination. They are premeditated by nature.

You committed murder as an act of desperation and fear. Your remorse is clear. This is not the same as your sins of the past.