[He leans his head in his hand, watching Kida, phone still held casually in the other hand. He's not pretending to smile any more, just observing Kida without his own thoughts really being visible. He gets kind of a twisted pleasure from Kida's own shock, because he hates Kida. He knows what it's like to hate someone like Izaya, who's so like himself he can't stand him. And he knows what it's like not to feel anything in particular except superiority and smug disdain for other humans.]

[But when it comes to Kida it's a different kind of dislike. Mikado he can admire and be afraid of on a different level. But Kida he can only find both pitiful and scary, and the fact that he's worth finding scary pisses Aoba off most of all. That's why he's decided to throw away the parts of himself that are afraid of someone he can remember as his own murderer. After all, if they keep coming back like this, he can just become a scarier monster than Kida's made himself.]

[He doesn't have the pitiful motivation Kida does, so he thinks his reasoning of surpassing fear isn't so incorrect.]

Really frightening and unreasonable, right? That kind of obsession is sort of pitiful too. So I'm wondering how to tell Ryuugamine-senpai that there's a murderer in his life. I'm not sure how he'll react. That's why I wanted the advice of his best friend, in this matter.