"And now you claim the Inferno... really now, boya, it's a little above your station, don't you think?"

So the butterflies were a form of contact, revealers of truths, and a handy lightsource....and probably the reason he'd been found here. "I'll get far enough," he said without much reaction. He was practiced in not reacting to prods at his emotions... except in one area.

Shinichi's eyes narrowed, just a tad, his posture more rigidly dangerous than lazily relaxed. "If you're implying any harm to my thief, you'll shortly wish you'd never, ever told me so."