[Heh. Nisei makes most people who can actually see him want to be violent. He's survived this long because he's devious and strong, not from a lack of enemies. But there's only so far he can afford to antagonize you. He more than learned that when you turned your back on him at Goura. And this time, he wasn't actually trying to make you angry at all. He just ... you're harder to read than most, and more like your brother than he can tell you. Nisei doesn't like the glint in your eye, the sudden flare of power and fury, but he accepts it readily. In silence, as there isn't much he can say, just now, that wouldn't dig him in deeper.]

[He knows you're angry because he perceives you too clearly, and knows things you wouldn't share with anyone. He knows it's not because his words missed the marks, but because they hit them. No fighter has a right to see sacrifices in this light, as human beings with human damage. But this is his particular gift, and the basis for most of his spells - the ability to make people face exactly what they fear might destroy them. He is darkness, and he spreads it. And suddenly, he knows how to answer.]

Then perhaps you should stay away from me.

[He's given you a way out, but he hopes you won't take it. Seimei wouldn't. Walking away from someone who knows how to hurt you, without knowing why they can or whether they will, isn't ... intelligent. And while it would make his life easier, Nisei has long preferred dangerous-and-requires-skill to easy. That is, when his risk-taking isn't getting him chained to a post and tortured.]