It kills him to see Ignis so upset but he's determined to do whatever he can to ease his suffering. He accepts that kiss but lets Ignis go back to hiding once he has acknowledged both his words and his conviction.

"Dunno it's always the right direction..." Sheepish and vaguely apologetic as he tucks Ignis in under his chin, dropping a kiss to his hair before settling his cheek heavily against the top of his head. Subtle grounding with the weight of his arms around the advisor again.

"We'll always find the right way forward, though. Long as we've got each other, babe." He might not trust either one of them one hundred percent but they balanced each other so well that he believed in them as a unit more than he'd ever trusted anything. Maybe even more than he'd trusted his Dad and Regis. It had been so long now it was hard to say.