It was quite disturbing to hear words like that out of a younger girl's mouth, though not as much as it would have been for somebody unused to the more unsavoury sides of life. It was more the fervent cheerfulness with which she had declared creating such destructive spells: taking pleasure in slaughter was unseemly [i]and[/i] the spells were unnecessarily deadly. Why would you, with magic, destroy instant death defences rather than incapacitation? It was wasteful to not know who was targeting you.

Maybe this was why they had been stolen from: killing anyone that might have been able to let the Daidouji know what was going to happen.

"Are the other defences of a similarly dangerous nature?"