"Hey." Alastair laid a hand heavily on Kiryu's shoulder, though his face began to take on an evil sort of grin. "You just had a stroke of bad luck that time. You weren't running with a member of an international shadow corporation who knew how to get things done without getting caught~..."

The grin faded only by a degree or two. "I wonder. What kinds of things can you do? With or without your power - you know, just in case our neighborhood tyrant were to try to stop us by taking powers away again."