[That question makes it all click into place. Why it felt so strange hearing his name, what kept itching at the back of his brain the whole time he was watching the secretary move.

Ryuugamine Mikado is someone he thought he'd never see again. When he left, he hadn't meant to be gone forever, but one thing led to another and with the eventual collapse of mobile service he hadn't been able to check and see if there was anything to return to in the first place. So he'd left his memories and assumed his friends were dead along with his own former self -- Izaya had never told him he'd heard otherwise.

But he must have. There's no way he wouldn't know about something like this. Suddenly Kida remembers the razor-sharp smile on his old contact's face when he'd suggested Dollars and Ikebukuro as an escape idea, and it makes perfect sense.

So after the initial look of wide-eyed shock passes, Kida's expression changes to a deeply burning resentment.]

I'm gonna kill that bastard. [He mutters under his breath, fingers tightening on his coffee cup before he remembers to respond to Mikado and not his own thoughts.]

...Uhm. Sorry, Mikado, I-- It really has been a long time, hasn't it?