Like you, I don't defy human understanding. I'm just an inconvenient kind of egoist to deal with... as a teammate and as a rival.

[ so no, kaiser doesn't think of himself as complex. he makes something of an attempt to actively obfuscate that, unlike noa, but at his core — everything he does can be rationalized using reason and logic once a person understands that kaiser is somebody who can treat himself as both chessmaster and a piece on the board, and that he plays to ensure everybody else loses just as much as he plays to win.

now, as for what he says, that's completely different. but is a youth not allowed to run his mouth every once in a while?! ]