He shakes his head, looking at the board, but listening to not-Ren—not just with his ears, but his peripheral vision, the way you look without seeing. The hair is rising on the back of his neck again, as it did before Shido's desk.

"It must be nice to be so unafraid." Perhaps an odd word for him, but. "So free of concern in such a situation. I suppose you'll say that's a mere human concern?"

Let's see if that shakes anything loose.