[There's a soft snort, which really is all the confirmation she needs. However, he chooses to keep talking anyway.]

I mean of course I do. Tadashi and Aunt Cass are the only people I have left. Sometimes they're the only people that matter. [...okay, usually they're the only people that matter.] Tadashi and I are seven years apart, so he's always looked out for me. And you know Tadashi, Adelina. He's really smart and he's too good of a person.

["What's not to look up to?"] What about it?