[ once again, lumine doesn't really say anything for a while. not because she has nothing to say, but because she has so much to say about it that she doesn't know if she'll stop until she's dissuaded him from pursuing this path or hurt him in some way. and as much of an asshat he is for involving her twin to whatever nefarious business his family has and for twisting her wrist, she also doesn't want to be an asshat like him.

she sighs under her breath. she's given him the way out; why can't he just take it like how a normal person would? ]

What are you even hoping to find out at the end of all this?

[ honestly, what is even at the end of all this? she admittedly has a few. theories, all of which she refuses to voice out because of how absurd they are—and because the last thing she wants is to be proven how right she was.

which she doesn't want to be. ]

So, he's real and is, for some reason, haunting you. But so what? You'll let a ghost bully you into doing what it wants?