[He gives it fair listen. Dist's behavior - and even moreso the fact that it worked at swaying people to like him - has been one of the most puzzling phenomena he's encountered in Luceti. Dist has always been a constant in his life; Jade has accepted long ago that Dist is incapable of true change and will always be stuck in the past. That's how he marks the difference between them: Jade was able to move on and change. Yet here, could it have been different?

All of his time in Luceti has made the subject much less sensitive to him. So Jade attempts to keep an impartial attitude as he listens and remarks, stroking at his own chin.]

I see. I suppose that it isn't the least likely thing I've ever heard. This is the kind of place that wouldn't enable his usual schemes, as well. But even beyond that... Perhaps this was the type of existence that he never knew that he was seeking.

[A simple life in a village, surrounded by caring people... and ah yes, he couldn't forget that other factor.]

The Professor's time here overlapped with his, didn't it? Yes, that would further explain a great deal of it.