[ A snort. Yeah, he knows how Koujaku is around women, but at least he doesn't act like that around Tae. It'd be kind of uncomfortable for everyone involved if he did.

Aoba slowly spins his glass around without taking another drink yet himself. ]

Either way, I think I've done enough of that already. I'm not going to give her any reason to worry about me unnecessarily.

[ Even if he doesn't remember a lot of it, Aoba really did make Tae's life difficult for several years of his life. ]