I'd like to casually remind everyone that the girl does not have the modern mindset and old culture's view towards love and marriage is vastly different from how it is now. The only reason she managed to even come up with her current mindset (very similar to modern mindset) is because she lived...
Ohhh so maybe Falco sees a bit of himself in Shou because the first thing he probably thought of when he saw a dying child in a forest was that "she must have been abandoned". It explains why he was so hellbent on keeping her to make sure she never gets abandoned "again" and at the same time, so...