[ Immediately after receiving confirmation from Karamatsu, Aoba decides to use his comm device to allow for a more personal touch to communication. He could use video, but he knows that sometimes when he's feeling particularly anxious... it's easiest to talk when his face isn't so exposed.

He instantly thinks back on confessing his feelings to Noiz, and even then, even alone... he couldn't face him when he said those words. So all that 'will I lose you' talk really, really resonates. ]

I hope you really don't mind, it's just that I thought with the direction our conversation was going you might want to hear this directly from me.

...Are you really that worried?