Talent

Tick!

I snapped my fingers and the fireball hovering in his hand disappeared. 

"Sorry, but as I said, I am not here to hurt you. I just want to talk."

Loten glared at me with his dead eyes. It was quite terrifying but I simply shrugged. 

"... what do you even have to say to me?" His glare intensified as he said those words. I first created some distance between us. I didn't want him to feel uncomfortable around me. On the contrary, he was hostile enough to make me uncomfortable.

"Why do you sound like I am about to do something bad?"

"Because that's what you lot do."

His words flew towards me like knives and stabbed me everywhere. Even I couldn't refute those words. They were strangely true to me.

"... I know that too."

(... Hmm.)

'Stay shut.'

Sou shut up and I continued.

"I know what you went through…" Even though I wanted to sound melancholic, I didn't intend to sound that melancholic.