Rob them of that? Of what? Idia's confusion over her comment showing on his face, it staying there for several moments before he answers in a tone that showed it should be obvious. "They're not my friends." There a weight to those words. It's not quite a bite to them, but it carried a weight of some sort of underlying insult that anyone would ever consider that. "Who cares what they think." Idia had accepted long ago that he would vanish from the world one day. So he never tried to be part of it. What was the point in making any connections when they would be lost and forgotten?

Other than online gaming that is. He would still have Muscle Kurenai for online gaming, and he was happy with that. He may had never met the other gamer, but that was more than enough for Idia between him and Ortho. Pffft, who needed irl friends, that's such an ancient way of thinking.