The teen said that Amen then noticed his friend with the frying pan behind him, and he feared he was going to stab him.
He said Amen then turned back towards him, at which point he stabbed him with the sword, before Amen ran away while bleeding heavily.
The accused said he was “panicking and just scared”. He removed blood-stained jogging bottoms and threw them over a wall.
He told the court he was not aware that Amen had collapsed on Clarendon Street.
He said he later visited the city’s Kelvingrove Park where he kicked the alleged murder weapon near to a river.
The trial was previously told that the accused had carried out an internet search of Amen and the incident on the day following the events.
He said: “I knew he was badly injured. I had no idea that he died.”
Iain McSporran KC, defending the 17-year-old, asked the boy if he had told Amen to “leave” his own client alone because he had “nothing to do with this”.
He replied: “Yes.”
The trial at the High Court in Glasgow continues before Judge Lord Colbeck.
