[ Even without his Vision (and Delusion at that, which pisses him off more, really, because that was his Tsaritsa's gift to him so how could he have simply lost it—), Tartaglia remains a force to be reckoned with. The frenetic energy of the Abyss still lingers inside of him, pulsing with a need to be released in order to deal with the situation at hand. He ignores the beast in favour of listening to Lumine.

He has better things to do than to indulge the whims of a monster. ]

I might have heard a thing or two about that. Aren't shadows something we should ignore though? I haven't been listening to mine, if it's trying to speak to me.

[ It has been for a while now, but— he's no longer that boy who was so scared of the dark. Not anymore. He won't go back to that place again. ]

Unless I should be...?