It's hard to emphasize how unusual it is that Koumyou is one of the few people to brush past Yondu's guards and immediately end up on his good side. It's a rare unicorn of a situation, but he had managed it. It was the friend that Yondu'd needed early on.

"I ain't had much time to talk to 'im outside of plannin' this thing but-" He slaps Devero's shoulder. "You got it, big man. I trust ya to handle 'im."