[He gives a small, slight laugh at the enthusiasm of her response. She's a good reporter, at least good enough to be charming and peppy and encourage the same from her subjects. It tends to be highly effective when it comes to people like Lazarus, who is inherently a very lonely soul.]
It's a cruel irony. The things we don't talk about are the scary things, and they're scary because we don't talk about them. Vicious cycle, that.
[He speaks as someone who has been treated, sometimes aggressively, for mental illness from the time he was in his late teens. He has always thought that the secrecy and stigmatization was a crock of bullshit, and nothing about his experience as a Numbered has made him feel any differently.]
So, Misa Amane... you care about the truth, and what to put it out there? If that's the case, I think we'll be very good friends. What do you want to know?
[Action]
It's a cruel irony. The things we don't talk about are the scary things, and they're scary because we don't talk about them. Vicious cycle, that.
[He speaks as someone who has been treated, sometimes aggressively, for mental illness from the time he was in his late teens. He has always thought that the secrecy and stigmatization was a crock of bullshit, and nothing about his experience as a Numbered has made him feel any differently.]
So, Misa Amane... you care about the truth, and what to put it out there? If that's the case, I think we'll be very good friends. What do you want to know?