Gouging and tearing-- if she can just do that by willing it (because that's what magic can do, right), then that's way fucking worse than the only other "magic" he's really seen here.
His initial, instinctual reaction- to both what she's saying and how she's saying it- is to back away from this "freaky shit" and react how he did with every other time something like this had been thrown at him here, especially since she may well possibly be admitting to murder.
But that's not the important part of this, or the way he knows he "should" react. Even in a situation so far removed from what he's used to, Arakita will always argue that words are meaningless without action behind them. He remembers this after second of silent thinking.]
...Just because you can doesn't mean you have, right?
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Gouging and tearing-- if she can just do that by willing it (because that's what magic can do, right), then that's way fucking worse than the only other "magic" he's really seen here.
His initial, instinctual reaction- to both what she's saying and how she's saying it- is to back away from this "freaky shit" and react how he did with every other time something like this had been thrown at him here, especially since she may well possibly be admitting to murder.
But that's not the important part of this, or the way he knows he "should" react. Even in a situation so far removed from what he's used to, Arakita will always argue that words are meaningless without action behind them. He remembers this after second of silent thinking.]
...Just because you can doesn't mean you have, right?