[And after a long while, she's finally breached the territory she's so carefully avoided. The last time, she did this was in a moment of weakness and only expressed to Athena and even then she kept it vague.

This time though, Ai wanted to talk about it without wavering.]

Well... In my world, psychics and magickind— what we call warlocks and witches— are two distinct groups. There's a lot of the former, but we weren't as powerful as we used to be decades ago.

[It wasn't even that long ago in retrospect, when Phuong was lost to everyone.]

So in a way, there's always a power struggle under the surface. And I'm actually one of the better espers; I just all short in the end though.