Uhm... [The uncertain, slightly sweaty look on his face is probably answer enough. It's complicated. It's very, very complicated, Kaede.] I don't...really know if we're friends.

[He takes a sip of tea to give himself more time to think about how to approach answering the rest of that. How is Kokichi? That is also very, very complicated. Even moreso because he's not sure it's his place to answer that. He is not Kokichi, after all.]

And he's...as well as he can be, given the circumstances, I suppose.