[Friends. It's not untrue, but it's still pretty far from the actual truth of the matter. But Kurama is not going to out Goro to the father he hates, when Shido finds out any of that is Goro's choice.]

I am. Goro is important to me.

[Kurama's green eyes are sharp and searching on the other end of the video feed. There's something very unemotionally calculating about it, no matter how out of place it may seem on an apparent teenager.]

If I may ask a question. How much of that is because it is your blood, and how much because it is his hands?