[Although he sees Shizuo giving him the opportunity to move on from the topic without much struggle... Haise does think that it's something to answer, if only because he gets the impression they may have similar concerns. He'd sooner answer than leave his associate alone with such a thought]

I wouldn't want to be irresponsible, when it affects someone else.

[The words are quiet, and they boil his concerns down to the simplest of terms. But ultimately, as he's once told Sieglinde, his concern is for how he'd impact others. It's a complicated matter, where he himself isn't human and can't imagine such a level of acceptance to begin with, but...

At the end of the day, he's most afraid of hurting someone, even if the kind of hurt he thinks of and what Shizuo worries over may differ]

Do you think K is a bad name? I've never had a pet before, but I don't think it sounds bad.