[This is probably not the best time to be smiling and blase about things, but he can't really help it. Everything had turned out fine in the end and Aichi had only been addicted to Psyqualia for a few weeks, and if he can't laugh at himself once in a while for how awful he'd been, it'll just make him more miserable in the end, really.]

Oh, he gave into it too, for a while. I encouraged him. I knew it would hurt Kai, and...I really liked knowing there was someone else. Not just because I felt like it proved I was right; it was just nice not being alone. And he was really something to watch while he was addicted to it.

[There is maybe a tiny part of him that's disappointed he'll never get to see or fight that Aichi again. It's better for Aichi and everyone else this way, and it's not like Aichi isn't stronger than almost anyone in his own right, but...it really had been something to see.]

Kai was strong enough by then to beat him and knock some sense into him, though. So he did surpass it eventually. And then Kai decided that because he could do that, he was strong enough to challenge me again too.

[He pauses and thoughtfully taps his chin.]

And that's about where I was when you showed up the other day.