[ The level of power described is frightening. Something Brig has always felt is too much for any man to bear. These are his same thoughts when he thinks of Hikaru as Death's soldier. ]

How did you come to control it, sir? Is it still with you? [ Brigade thinks of the things An'yu has shown him. Fears that learning the more esoteric transmutations (not even those of Centimani because he would never go down that road), and his own personality of breaking limitations, might make him something... similar. ]

I'm afraid, sir. Of delving into my transmutations. Afraid I may lose control. Of not being [ you were never human, Brig. Just a doll playing at it ]... anymore.