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.