It certainly achieved that. Just the idea of facing them again... I feel some sort of impending terror.

[ sure he was scared before, but he could trump that in the name of the greater good. but right now his body is throwing that to the side, no matter what his mind wants.

he takes some solace in her grip, letting out another breath in a sigh as he thinks back to what happened a few days earlier. if they were going to figure this out, otome needed to know everything. ]

Another one almost got me killed a few days ago. Whatever these spirits want, they aren't afraid to take lives to get it.