[Don't worry, big guy, he'll sit. And absently pet the omen's head. You can't not pet a doglike creature when it puts its head in your lap like that. His own Omen stays where it is, though, curled around his shoulders. Nice and out of the way.]

[He's quiet, listening. Generally, in his experience, someone's abilities going out of control ended in a lot more people being dead. A lot more blood. This incident seems to have left the students scraped, bruised and injured, but alive. Better than it possibly could have ended.]

Was it corruption? [Corruption that pushed the student over the edge. Hakkai is sure he's met the boy. Spoken briefly. He'd never gotten a sense of power from him. Not like he did from someone like Goku. Maybe it was Trench, then, that caused it.]

[But... he does understand not wanting to pressure someone who'd just been through a traumatic event. And Hakkai sighs.]

I'm reminded of our conversation at the... speed dating event. Though I hadn't expected you to take it so far.

I suppose I should have, shouldn't I?