But if there are no new magi, then existing Witches would run amok, no? Yet even if every existing Witch is taken down, the remaining magi would starve. It's a finely tuned cycle, when you realise the intricacies. A magi’s true duty might just be to one day sustain their descendants.

[He can respect a good scheme even if it's out for his life. Laurent tilts his head, his eyes settling somewhere beyond Shion.]

Like I said, there could be other ways, and certainly people are experimenting to find out. [On us, he doesn't say. He doesn't say that he believes the fate of Nyoi-cho would have been an eventual succumbing, one way or the other, that if not for his evacuation here he would have unfolded like spring into a hoary nightmare. Is… is Nyoi-cho still standing?]

But I'd best stop, I think your sister is plotting my murder.