At this point in time, Kai had already realized something important. Something that he ignored for the longest while now. Something even he himself never even thought could ever happen to him. What he felt toward Kaya and Eva… definitely wasn't simple trust anymore.
This wasn't a sudden realization and was in fact a gradual change that Kai was very much aware of. He had noticed how he went from seeing them as simple acquaintances who somehow ended up barging into his life to proactively protecting them even when his plans were under threat of being exposed.
'Do I… like them? Perhaps I do.' He thought to himself as he ran his hand through his hair.
What did it mean for Kai to like someone? At some point in time, he understood that feeling. In fact, the person who taught him about it is sitting next to him now. But, with what happened, he lost any sense of how to feel and ironically, it was the same person that he loved that made him lose that feeling.