Aya let his gaze rest on Ken for a while before answering, something pained flickering across the violet of his eyes. If he could have let the past lie, he would have, without a doubt.

"When Weiss had just been formed, we had a mission in Sendai," he begun. "S&M club, hacking young women into pieces. I killed the 'sensei', who was my old teammate and the very same man sitting at that table there." Aya paused for a moment. He had never before said these words aloud, but it didn't prove out to be completely impossible after all. "I'm sure you remember Shion. Kikyo was part of his team. He arranged an ambush, killed the rest that managed to escape. Only Shion was able to escape." He did not mention he had thought Shion dead and that the ambush had been built from Ran's lead. He had considered himself guilty for the death of his whole team until that mission in Sendai. So had Kritiker.

Nor did he mention that Kikyo had played him like the idiot boy he had been then, trusting, empathic. He had been a friend, shared Ran's frustration and anger, even loss of his family, desire for revenge. And then betrayed him. It was hardly his personality alone that kept teammates and friends alike at arms length away. That way they'd never hurt him the way Kikyo had, never be able to hurt others through him.

"He's a psychopath, Ken," he said blankly.