It's the way Kurapika is the only person capable of understanding Chrollo's loss, his anger, and his desire to protect his loved ones while also being the same person who isolated him from said loved ones and having the power to do so again if he so pleased, and if he had the chance, for me...
I feel like some people really underestimate Kurapika. When I stumble across talk about how krkr is abusive and whatnot, it's always Chrollo this, Chrollo that... And fine, let's entertain the thought of their relationship being "abusive" because of... past murder of family and friends, sure... Have you then forgotten about "now you'll know what it feels like to lose your family"?
Physically? Ok, maybe Chrollo would be able to overpower him (though with nen and all you can never be sure), and he certainly knows what to say to get under his skin, as during the car scene he easily figured him out and was able to provoke him. Still... not only is Kurapika no less strong or cunning than him (not that this is what abuse comes down to, but y'know. Fandom™), but he also has chain jail and judgement chain on his side, and if he managed to successfully use them Chrollo wouldn't be able to do anything, again as we've seen from everything that happened in York New.
Kurapika doesn't enjoy inflicting pain on others - quite the contrary, in fact - but he's willing to suppress his own feelings for a greater cause... and, while that cause at the moment is limited to finding the scarlet eyes, his initial objective was to eliminate the phantom troupe as well. Due to the nature of the spider and because he was shocked to see that they are human too he's chosen to neglect this one aspect of his quest for the moment, but the fact remains that he's not beyond killing, and he's not beyond taking advantage of people.
In the context of krkr, I don't think he'd ever be capable of forgiving Chrollo, and neither would Chrollo blame him for it. And to go back to my initial point, since people love to bring up power imbalances so much, I feel like Kurapika would actually have the upper hand under this point of view. Because, despite knowing what it's like to have your loved ones being taken away from you, he wouldn't owe Chrollo neither forgiveness nor pity, and he'd actually have the power to deprive him of any form of sympathy or comfort. By actively refusing to give him any, by using judgement chain again to separate him from the remaining spiders, you name it. Because in a way it'd feel like justice: the cause of all his trauma and pain would be going through the same experience he had been put through. And again, he really wouldn't owe Chrollo anything.
But Kurapika doesn't find any pleasure in other people's pain. When he was fooled into thinking that some spiders had died he didn't feel any satisfaction. Only emptiness, because he had made it his objective to destroy the Phantom Troupe and what was he to do after that? He buried Uvogin after having killed him, he emphasized with Pakunoda's desire to save Chrollo. He hasn't killed anyone else since then, but he still feels that he's losing parts of himself because of the things he has to do to get the eyes of his people back.
A part of him would probably feel that Chrollo deserves to suffer the loss of his loved ones, like he did in York New. But if even the feelings of someone he hated managed to resonate with him at that time, then how could he be completely satisfied, or happy, to see someone he has grown to love suffer?
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