Mao scoffed. "I know exactly what I'm doing! Don't talk to me like I'm a kid!" Why did everyone here have to jump to those conclusions, anyway? Besides. It was just too interesting to give up on like that.

"It's a summon, isn't it?" Mao asked, his excitement starting to get the best of him. The way the magic rolled off of it. There was no other possibility (at least, not any that his brilliant mind could come up with)!