Emizel did pause, but he was still irritated. He couldn't exactly do both things at once anyway. There had to be a better way to go about this.

Physically holding back darkness probably was stupid. What was there was there and there was nothing he could do about that. At least not in that way. And going by the last experience, staying calm and focused was the easiest way to prevent it from effecting him. Which he might need.

Slowly Emizel removed his hand and stood straight. He was going to have to ignore the presence and just try to endure it, hopefully this won't take long.

"I don't need to," with both arms free now, let's try that again. Jotting some ice around Ansem as a wall and attempting that fire again. Let's see him get out of that.