Sorry, kid, only he's not sorry and he's kind of relieved they can go back to not talking about him.

Only what he hears isn't the greatest for him either. A hunter group. The thought churns his guts.

"Secret daemon invasion?" That's met with alarm in and of itself, but he can at least safely vocalize that. "Well, I guess that's good they're avenging then. There's a lot of people in New York. Crazy you don't here about any of these things until you fall into this stuff, right?" He laughs. "I remember when a haunted house was just a joke."