Eyes narrow as he considers the best way to move forward. While Aoba denied offering this out of pity, it still rang in Noiz's ears as that was exactly what he was doing. He could deny it all he wanted, but at the end of the day Noiz had already made up his mind about it.

"Just because you don't want to feel bad isn't a reason. I'm not going to do it just so I can owe you later." People didn't do things out of the 'kindness of their heart'. There was always some underhanded or unspoken reason behind it. While he didn't necessarily think that Aoba was smart enough to would push some extremely unwelcome thing upon him, he didn't want to accept anything without being able to give something in return.

But without a Dominant he couldn't even get a job---couldn't get anything to be even the playing field. That was also something to consider. "I'll think on it."