The reply confirms his suspicions about her oddity, though it segues into a less jovial reflection there. Most of what he knows of Milyn is peripheral -- an acquaintance of Lieuen and a favourably skilled (recovered, perhaps) kedan of her own right, but most reports state her to be... cheerful. Irritatingly so, by her demonstration here, yet there is that break in cheer to make that admission.

"Because you don't hate them," is his assessment. Evandau does not much ask questions outside of interrogations, simply states what he sees. "When the rest of the kedan hated them, you still found interest in them."