The people I'm close to now are...exceptional. Most of the ones who know the full truth about me aren't here. The ones who do...heh. They're why I'm here right now.

[He's not even really exaggerating. If not for them, he can't be sure he would have taken the job of Composer.]

They're the reason I'm not hiding behind that mask as much, anymore. Because you're right, it is stupid to give such a damn about people I don't even know. But before Akira, nobody gave a damn about me! And even him...hahaha...what's it matter if someone cares when you're supposed to kill him, anyway? And living a life where you're nothing to everybody is torturous. Even if the public's adoration was shallow, it was something! It was the closest I came back then to feeling like I was somehow important, after everyone who should have cared abandoned me!