"Nah, the guy who was behind it all is such a bad person that he deserves worse. Even the best people I know would wanna do worse than you're thinking," Kon said, finally calming down a bit as she handed it to him. "He wanted me to hurt your friend. Make her disappear. Make them all disappear. Anyone that spoke up a little too loud, anyone he could use."

He looked at the nanochain and thought, just for a moment, what it might be like to stuff the thing inside him with his teke, to find some way to make it trigger, to -

No. No, he didn't have to go to that place anymore.

He turned away from Nico, tossed the devices into the air and blasted them to nothing with his heatvision. Not even dust was left.

Then he stood there, hands clenched at his sides.

"No, I'm gonna - I'm gonna get him in front of a court. And I'm gonna tell them what he ordered done to me. And I'm gonna make it so the whole world sees him get strapped to that electric chair or strapped in to get that lethal injection, and then he gets to be small. He gets to be the one trapped. And that way everyone can see that - that there's supposed to be rules. The good kind. The kind that you don't follow just because, the kind that you follow because people are better off for it."