"Is that your final answer, Pyre? You don't sound very confident in yourself or what you're doing here." Shiroe watches the man, lips pursed. There's surely a lot more going on here--he doesn't have the entire picture.

"I imagine that it made you feel very special, to be selected by Fenix Down to be the new grand finale. I imagine you didn't often feel like that, before. Perhaps you were on the outskirts of social groups, didn't have very many friends. But Fenix picked you, and it felt like it was opening up the whole world to you."

He's laying the cards he has on the table, trying to see what happens if he pushes a little.

"Has it really made you feel like you wanted to? Did you enjoy the fear that the audience had, watching you burn?"